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.
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Alfred Aho, co-developer of the AWK
Leonard Adleman, encryption (RSA) Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
Stephen Bourne, developer of the Bourne shell
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John Carmack, realtime computer game graphics, id Software
Noam Chomsky, linguist, language theorist (Chomsky hierarchy) and social critic
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Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects
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J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC
Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
Marc Ewing, creator of Red Hat Linux
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Bill Gates, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
James Gosling, "father" of the Java programming language
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Grace Hopper, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.
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Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple
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Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple
Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, BSD
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Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, C programming language
Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, TeX
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Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP Scripting Language
Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and founder of the Creative Commons
Ada Lovelace
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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,
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Roger Needham
John von Neumann, theoretical computer science
Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel and the founder of integrated circuit
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Sir John Anthony Pople, pioneer in computational chemistry
Jon Postel, Internet pioneer, founder of IANA
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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
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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++
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Ken Thompson, Unix and Plan 9 operating systems
Linus Torvalds, Linux
Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptographer
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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
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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