American software engineers

Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as of April 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$809 billion.

Finnish software engineer (born 1969)

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of December 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth is US$239.4 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world. He was the wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021, according to Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Paul Gardner Allen was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen discovered the wrecks of various famous warships, like the IJN Musashi and USS Indianapolis, and was ranked as one of the richest people in American history by Forbes, with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death in October 2018.

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft

American computer scientist (born 1943)

American NASA scientist and mathematician

American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering

American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)

American computer scientist and Internet pioneer

American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)

American computer scientist (1924–2017)

Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation

Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp

American businessman

American mathematician and rocket scientist

English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

United States Senator from California since 2021

first American woman to receive a PhD in computer science (1913-1985); simultaneously with Irving Tang first American to receive PhD in computer science, nun

American software engineer

Luigi Nicholas Mangione is an American man accused of killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

American far-right political theorist and computer scientist

American entrepreneur

American politician and businessman

American software engineer

American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp

American software engineer

American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer

American computer programmer (1969-2018)

programmer, creator of jQuery

American blogger

American computer scientist

American software engineer

software developer and open source community activist

American software consultant (b. 1952)

American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist

American computer programmer (b. 1952)

American software engineer

Engineer and engineering manager

American game show contestant, host, and writer

American software engineer and political figure (1954–2022)

American software engineer

NASA VR Engineer

American atheist activist (born 1969)

American software engineer, author, and consultant

American software engineer

American software engineer (1935–2022)

American software engineer

Senior Apple employee

American engineer (1927–2010)

American software programmer

American video game developer

American computer scientist and writer

Hungarian computer scientist (1928–2021)

American businessman

American software engineer, Wikipedian, and cryptocurrency critic

American business executive and investor

American computer scientist (1944–2021)

Taiwanese-American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Detroit