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{{Short description|none}} This is a list of people who are important or notable in the field of [[computing]], but who are not primarily computer scientists or programmers. <!-- The list is not necessarily complete or up to date - if you see an article that should be here but isn't (or one that shouldn't be here but is), please update the page accordingly. --> {{compact ToC|side=yes|seealso=yes|nobreak=yes}} ==A== * [[Alfred Aho]], co-developer of the [[AWK]] * [[Leonard Adleman]], [[encryption]] ([[RSA (algorithm)|RSA]]) * [[Marc Andreessen]], co-founder of [[Netscape Communications Corporation]] ==B== * [[Tim Berners-Lee]], inventor of the [[World Wide Web]] * [[Stephen R. Bourne|Stephen Bourne]], developer of the [[Bourne shell]] ==C== * [[John Carmack]], realtime computer game graphics, [[id Software]] * [[Noam Chomsky]], linguist, language theorist ([[Chomsky hierarchy]]) and social critic ==D== * [[Theo de Raadt]], founder of the [[OpenBSD]] and [[OpenSSH]] projects ==E== *[[J. Presper Eckert]], [[ENIAC]] *[[Larry Ellison]], co-founder of [[Oracle Corporation]] *[[Marc Ewing]], creator of [[Red Hat Linux]] ==F== ==G== * [[Bill Gates]], co-founder and Chairman of [[Microsoft]] * [[James Gosling]], "father" of the [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]] ==H== * [[Grace Hopper]], she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. ==I== * [[Jonathan Ive]], Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] ==J== * [[Steve Jobs]], co-founder and CEO of Apple * [[Bill Joy]], co-founder of [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]] ==K== * [[Brian Kernighan]], [[Dennis Ritchie]], C programming language * [[Donald Knuth]], ''The Art of Computer Programming'', [[TeX]] ==L== * [[Rasmus Lerdorf]], creator of the [[PHP|PHP Scripting Language]] * [[Lawrence Lessig]], professor of law and founder of the [[Creative Commons]] * [[Ada Lovelace]] ==M== * [[John William Mauchly]], [[ENIAC]] * [[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]], [[LISP programming language]] * [[Bob Miner]], co-founder of [[Oracle Corporation]] * [[Marvin Minsky]], [[artificial intelligence|AI]] luminary * [[Gordon E. Moore]], co-founder of [[Intel]], [[Moore's Law]] * [[Elon Musk]], co-founder of [[PayPal]], [[Tesla, Inc]], [[SpaceX]], ==N== * [[Roger Needham]] * [[John von Neumann]], theoretical computer science * [[Robert Noyce]], co-founder of [[Intel]] and the founder of [[integrated circuit]] ==P== * [[John Pople|Sir John Anthony Pople]], pioneer in computational chemistry * [[Jon Postel]], [[Internet]] pioneer, founder of [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]] ==Q== {{Empty section|date=July 2010}} ==R== * [[Eric S. Raymond|Eric Raymond]], [[Open source]] movement luminary * [[Dennis Ritchie]], [[Unix]] operating system and [[C (programming language)|C programming language]] * [[Ron Rivest]], [[encryption]] ([[RSA (algorithm)|RSA]]) * [[Guido van Rossum]], [[Python (programming language)]] [[Benevolent Dictator For Life]] ==S== * [[Adi Shamir]], [[encryption]] ([[RSA (algorithm)|RSA]]) * [[Mark Shuttleworth]], founder of Canonical * [[Richard Stallman]], founder of [[GNU]] * [[Olaf Storaasli]], NASA [[Finite element machine]] * [[Bjarne Stroustrup]], founder of [[C++]] ==T== * [[Ken Thompson]], [[Unix]] and [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]] operating systems * [[Linus Torvalds]], [[Linux]] * [[Alan Turing]], British [[mathematician]] and [[cryptography|cryptographer]] ==U== {{Empty section|date=July 2010}} ==V== {{Empty section|date=July 2010}} ==W== * Prof. [[Joseph Weizenbaum]], computer critic * [[Kevin Warwick]], [[cyborg]] scientist, implant self-experimenter * [[Niklaus Wirth]], developed Pascal * [[Peter J. Weinberger]], co-developer of the [[AWK]] language * [[Sophie Wilson]], designer of the [[ARM architecture family|ARM]] instruction set * [[Stephen Wolfram]], founder of [[Wolfram Research]], physicist, software developer, mathematician * [[Steve Wozniak]], co-founder of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]; creator of the [[Apple I]] and [[Apple II]] computers ==X== {{Empty section|date=July 2010}} ==Y== {{Empty section|date=July 2010}} ==Z== * [[Jill Zimmerman]], James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at [[Goucher College]] * [[Konrad Zuse]], built one of the first computers * [[Mark Zuckerberg]], co-founder of [[Facebook]] == See also == * [[List of programmers]] * [[List of computer scientists]] * [[List of pioneers in computer science]] * [[List of Russian IT developers]] {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Computing People}} [[Category:Lists of people by occupation|Computing]] [[Category:Computing-related lists|Computing people]]
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