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

• 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

F

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

Q

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

U

V

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

X

Y

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