Category
page 1Unix people
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
Bill Joy
American computer scientist
Douglas McIlroy
American computer scientist, mathematician, engineer, and programmer
Rob Pike
software engineer
Eric Allman
American computer programmer
Paul Vixie
American internet pioneer
W. Richard Stevens
American writer (1951–1999)
Stephen R. Bourne
British computer scientist
Lee E. McMahon
American computer scientist
Stephen C. Johnson
American computer scientist
Lorinda Cherry
Computer scientist and original Unix team member (1944-2022)
Tom Duff
American computer programmer
Robert Morris
cryptographer (1932–2011)
Joe Ossanna
American computer programmer (1928–1977)
Mike Lesk
American computer scientist
Tim Bray
Canadian software developer (b. 1955)
Stuart Feldman
American computer scientist
David Korn
American computer programmer (born 1943)
John Lions
Australian computer scientist (1937-1998)