# List of computing people

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.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z
* See also

## A

* Alfred Aho, co-developer of the AWK
* Leonard Adleman, encryption (RSA)
* Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation

## B

* Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
* 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

## G

* Bill Gates, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
* James Gosling, "father" of the 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

## J

* Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple
* Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, BSD

## K

* Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, C programming language
* Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, TeX

## L

* Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP Scripting Language
* Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and founder of the Creative Commons
* Ada Lovelace

## M

* John William Mauchly, ENIAC
* John McCarthy, LISP programming language
* Bob Miner, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
* Marvin Minsky, 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

* Sir John Anthony Pople, pioneer in computational chemistry
* Jon Postel, Internet pioneer, founder of IANA

## R

* Eric Raymond, Open source movement luminary
* Dennis Ritchie, Unix operating system and C programming language
* Ron Rivest, encryption (RSA)
* Guido van Rossum, Python (programming language) Benevolent Dictator For Life

## S

* Adi Shamir, encryption (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 operating systems
* Linus Torvalds, Linux
* Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptographer

## 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 instruction set
* Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, physicist, software developer, mathematician
* Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers

## 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