Category
page 1Programming language designers
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
Konrad Zuse
German computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
John Backus
American computer scientist (1924–2007)
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Larry Wall
American computer programmer and author
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
Alan Perlis
American computer scientist (1922–1990)
Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference report
Seymour Papert
MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator (1928–2016)
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
Ole-Johan Dahl
Norwegian computer scientist (1931–2002)
Larry Tesler
American computer scientist (1945–2020)
John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College
Alfred Aho
Canadian computer scientist
Kristen Nygaard
Computer scientist, Mathematician (1926-2002)
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language
Kenneth E. Iverson
Canadian computer scientist (1920–2004)
Robin Milner
British computer scientist (1934-2010)
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
Mary Kenneth Keller
first American woman to receive a PhD in computer science (1913-1985); simultaneously with Irving Tang first American to receive PhD in computer science, nun
Hal Abelson
computer scientist
Anders Hejlsberg
Danish software engineer (born 1960)
Rob Pike
software engineer
Martin Odersky
German computer scientist, inventor of Scala programming language
Friedrich L. Bauer
German computer scientist (1924–2015)
Bertrand Meyer
French computer scientist
Kathleen Booth
British computer scientist (1922–2022)
Thomas E. Kurtz
American computer scientist and educator (1928–2024)
Gerald Jay Sussman
American computer scientist
Kateryna Yushchenko
Ukrainian Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist (1919–2001)
Joe Armstrong
British computer scientist (1950-2019)
John Ousterhout
creator of the Tcl/Tk development environment
Jean Ichbiah
French computer scientist (1940-2007)
Jean E. Sammet
American computer scientist (1928-2017)
Christopher Strachey
British computer scientist (1916–1975)
Guy L. Steele Jr.
American computer scientist
Walter Bright
american software developer known for designing compilers
Peter J. Weinberger
American computer scientist
Roberto Ierusalimschy
Brazilian computer scientist (born 1960)
Andrei Alexandrescu
Romanian computer scientist and author
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
Dutch computer scientist (1916-1987)
Charles H. Moore
American computer programmer
Stephen R. Bourne
British computer scientist
Andrey Ershov
Russian computer scientist (1931–1988)
Alain Colmerauer
French computer scientist (1941-2017)
Phyllis Fox
American mathematician and computer scientist (1923-2017)
Trygve Reenskaug
Norwegian computer scientist (1930–2024)
Heinz Zemanek
Austrian computer pioneer (1920–2014)