Fellows of the British Computer Society

William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.

English computer scientist (born 1955)

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

British computer scientist

British computer scientist (1913–2010)

American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering

American computer scientist (1924–2017)

American physicist (1922-2015)

British physicist

English mathematician (1919–1986)

British computer scientist (1934-2010)

British computer scientist (born 1957)

British businesswoman and philanthropist (1933–2025)

British electrical engineer (1921–2001)

American businessman

British computer scientist

British computer scientist (1952-)

British computer scientist

British computer scientist

British computer scientist (1916–1975)

British computer scientist (1927–2004)

British statistician (1907–1983)

British computer scientist (1924-2000)

Russian computer scientist (1931–1988)

British artificial intelligence researcher (1923–2007)

British computer scientist (born 1953)

Businesswoman; peer of the House of Lords in the UK

scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh

British computer scientist

British computer scientist

British professor of computer science

British computer scientist (1933–2020)

British computer scientist

computer scientist (1935–2003)

American computer scientist (1921-1992)

computer scientist

politician (born 1967)

British computer scientist

Austrian businessman (born 1948)

Prinicipal of Jesus College, Oxford; Professor of Computer Science; Chairman of the Open Data Institute

British physicist and computer scientist

British computer scientist

British computer scientist and Robot Wars judge

Computer Scientist

American physicist

British-American computer scientist

Systems engineer, consultant, author

British businessman and engineer (born 1961)

British artificial intelligence expert

Greek-born scholar and computer scientist

electronics engineer, computer hardware engineer, and curator (1931–2011)

British computer scientist

American computer scientist