List of early Apple Computer employees

The following is a list of early employees from Apple Computer Inc., the predecessor of Apple Inc. that was incorporated on January 3, 1977.
Some of the earliest staff had been working at the Los Altos home of Steve Jobs' parents since the previous Apple Computer Company partnership was formed on April 1, 1976. The first eight badges were assigned in March 1977 by Michael Scott, Apple's first president, so the numbers may not reflect the order in which these early staff joined the company.The First 10 Apple Employees: Where Are They Now? by Jay Yarow, Business Insider. 2011-05-24.Who were the first 25 employees at Apple? by Sean Owczarek, Quora. 2012-09-24.Who were the first 250 employees of Apple? by Terri Powers, Quora. 2012-07-25.Mac 30th Celebration by All Planet Studios, The Computer History Museum, and Macworld/iWorld. 2014-01-25. Employees who left Apple and returned are known to have been re-issued their previous badge number.Mac Turns 30 and We Celebrate Redux, ilenes machine. 2014-01-27.MacBasic by Andy Hertzfeld, Folklore. 1985-06.
==List of employees by badge number==
 	Still with Apple 	 	Early "garage" staff 
Badgeno. 	Badge/hiredate	Name 	Description / note
—  	1976-04-01 	Ronald Wayne 	Part of the original Apple Computer Company, but left the partnership 12 days later.
—  	1976-05 	Patty Jobs 	First part-time employee. Helped assemble Apple-1 circuit boards at the Jobs family home.
1  	1977-03 	Steve Wozniak 	Co-founder and technical lead behind the Apple-1, Apple II, and Disk II.Steve Wozniak is still on Apple’s payroll four decades after co-founding the company by John Shinal, CNBC. 2018-01-18.
2  	1977-03 	Steve Jobs 	Michael Scott assigned Jobs this number to annoy him. Jobs later assigned himself "#0".
3  	1977-03 	Mike Markkula 	Angel investor who provided $250,000 to build the Apple II and recruited Michael Scott.
4  	1977-03 	Bill Fernandez 	One of Apple's first "garage" employees, worked with Wozniak on the Apple I and II.
5  	1977-03 	Rod Holt 	Apple's first chief engineer. This slot was first offered to Jerry Manock, who initially declined.
6  	1977-03 	Randy Wigginton 	Circuit designer who adapted Microsoft's BASIC into Applesoft BASIC and wrote MacWrite.
7  	1977-03 	Michael Scott 	Scott assigned himself this number as a reference to "007".
8  	1977-03-17 	Chris Espinosa 	Early employee who could have received a lower number, but got back late from school.
9  	1977 	Jim Martindale 	Apple's first manufacturing and production manager.
10  	1977 	Sherry Livingston 	Apple's first secretary.
11  	1977-06 	Don Breuner 	Hardware technician who later co-developed MacWrite.
12  	1977-06 	Dan Kottke 	Early "garage" employee, but received this number after returning from Columbia College.
13  	? 	John Draper 	A.k.a. "Captain Crunch", developed early modem boards and EasyWriter for the Apple II.
13  	1977-06 	Mark Johnson 	Also claims to be employee #13, confirmed to have assembled Apple II computers.
14  	1977 	Gene Carter 	Director of sales, recruited by Mike Markkula.
15  	1977 	Thomas Whitney 	Executive vice president of engineering.
16  	1977-08 	Wendell Sander 	Staff scientist. Father of the Apple III.
17  	1977-09 	Gary Martin 	Apple's first corporate controller, previously also identified as employee #10.
18  	1977 	Dana Redington 	Marketing demo writer and programmer.
19  	1977-10 	Clive Twyman 	Manager of product design.
21  	1977-11 	Robert Martinengo 	Assembled Apple II computers.
22  	1977-11 	Cliff Story 	
23  	1977-11 	Chrisann Brennan 	Assembled Apple II computers.
25  	1977-11-14 	Dick Huston 	Wrote the boot ROM of the original Disk II floppy drive for the Apple II.
27  	1977-11-28 	Cliff Huston 	Designed the analog board of the original Disk II floppy drive for the Apple II.
29  	1977-12 	Ed Ruder 	Collaborated with Wigginton and Breuner in developing MacWrite.
31  	1978-01-03 	Jef Raskin 	Co-wrote Integer BASIC manual as a consultant. Started the Macintosh project in 1979.
32  	1978-01 	Brian Howard 	Co-wrote Integer BASIC manual as a consultant. 2nd member of the Macintosh project.
34  	1978-01 	Elmer Baum 	Early manager, loaned Jobs and Wozniak $5,000 in seed money to build the Apple I.
35  	1978-01 	Phil Roybal 	Built the product marketing and tech support departments.
38  	1978-01 	Gary Shannon 	Apple II software engineer.
49  	1978 	Bana Witt 	Personal assistant to Jef Raskin. Badge issued December 13, 1978.
51  	1978-04-27 	Bill Atkinson 	Architect of QuickDraw, MacPaint and HyperCard. Blue badge issued December 13, 1978.
54  	1978 	John Couch 	Head of the Apple Lisa development team.
57  	1978-05 	Charles Mauro 	Apple II software engineer. Badge issued March 26, 1979.
63  	1978 	Brad Hacker 	Worked on user manuals and documentation. Badge issued June 16, 1980.
66  	1978 	Bruce Tognazzini 	Applications software engineer and human interface designer.
128  	1978 	Kent Hopkins 	Worked in the production department.
136  	1978-10 	Cheng Lim 	Worked in the production department; trained to assemble keyboards.
140  	1978-10 	Terri Powers 	Hired on the same day as Cheng; later became Apple's first tech trainee in 1980.
187  	1978-12 	Bob Bishop 	Programmer of the Apple-Vision demo.
219  	1979 	Rich Whicker 	Member of the "Twiggy" team.
246  	1979 	Jerry Manock 	Industrial designer of the Apple II, III, Lisa, and Macintosh 128K cases.
282  	1979-02-27 	Burrell Smith 	Designer of the Macintosh 128K logic board.
345  	1979-04-30 	Joe Shelton 	Marketing analyst and product manager.
350  	1979 	Laszlo Zsidek 	Tooling and manufacturing engineer.
435  	1979-08-06 	Andy Hertzfeld 	Software architect of the Macintosh operating system.
1111 	1980-02-01 	Ann Bowers 	Apple's first vice president of human resources.
1926 	1981-02 	Tom Pittard 	Senior research engineer in the Apple Advanced Technology Group.
2384 	1981-05-25 	Joe Budge 	Secretary of the International Apple Core.
2536 	1981 	Bryan Stearns 	Worked on TeachText and MacBASIC. Left in fall 1982 and returned in January 1985.
2632 	1981-08-10 	Mark Gitschel 	Worked at the Macintosh factory in Fremont, California.
3039 	1981-11-10 	Ellen Petry Leanse 	Member of the Macintosh launch team and first "User Evangelist".
3978 	1982 	Susan Kare 	Original Macintosh user interface graphics and icon designer.
3??2 	1983-04-20 	Martin J. Spergel 	Supplied RF modulators for the Apple II. "Consultant (Friend)" badge numbered "3.2"?
4115 	1983-02-14 	Mimi Filizetti 	Marketing communications.
4426 	1983-03 	Scott Knaster 	Technical support manager for developers and technical writer.
8276 	1986-03-10 	Christine Thompson	Corporate marketing executive for small business.
  * Italicization indicates anecdotal entries with conflicting or no corroborating infomation.
===Early employees with undetermined badge numbers===
*Bob Bailey - Collaborator on the Integrated Woz Machine.
*Bruce Blumberg - Apple Lisa and Macintosh product manager. Hired in 1981.
*Carl Carlson - Hired around December 1979 to become VP of operations.
*Lyle Crouse - Apple II production and shipping manager.
*Donn Denman - Ported Applesoft BASIC to the Apple III and developed MacBASIC. Hired in Summer 1979.
*Bud Tribble - Joined the original Macintosh development team in 1980.
==Gallery==
Badge 0006 Randy Wigginton.png|Randy Wigginton #6(March 1977)
Badge 0008 Chris Espinosa.jpg|Chris Espinosa #8(March 17, 1977)
Badge 0049 Bana Witt.jpg|Bana Witt #48(December 13, 1978)
Badge 0051 Bill Atkinson.jpg|Bill Atkinson #51(December 13, 1978)
Badge 0057 Charles Mauro.jpg|Charles Mauro #57(March 26, 1979)
Badge 0063 Brad Hacker.jpg|Brad Hacker #63(June 6, 1980)
Badge 0345 Joe Shelton.jpg|Joe Shelton #345(April 30, 1979)
Badge 0435 Andy Hertzfeld.jpg|Andy Hertzfeld #435(August 6, 1979)
Badge 3.2 Martin J. Spergel.png|Martin J. Spergel #3.2(April 20, 1983)
Badge 2536 Bryan Stearn.jpg|Bryan Stearns #2536(January 14, 1985)
Apple Computer Stevens Creek map.jpg|Plan of 1st office space at 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd.(early 1977)|link=
Apple Computer Bandley 1 map.png|Plan of 2nd office space at 10260 Bandley Drive(January 1978)|link=
==References==
==See also==
*Number of Apple employees
==External links==
*Apple Alumni Reunion Celebrating the first 10 years of Apple
*Apple Computer History Weblog at the Computer History Museum (1976-1993)
*Folklore The Original Macintosh by Andy Hertzfeld et al.
===Articles===
*Macintosh Insiders Ten Years Later by Guy Kawasaki at Stanford University (1993-12-01)
*These Pictures Of Apple's First Employees Are Absolutely Wonderful by Jim Edwards at Business Insider (2013-12-26)
*Who are the unsung heroes in Apple's history? by Randy Wigginton at Quora (2014-03-02)
*Rare photos of the first days of Apple by Micah Soto at TipsMake (2019-05-24)
 
 
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