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page 1Free software programmers

Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist

Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python

Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist

Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)

Larry Wall
American computer programmer and author
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP

Ian Murdock
American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)

John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
Yann Le Cun
French computer scientist (born 1960)

Audrey Tang
Taiwanese activist, politician and free software programmer
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German biochemist and software developer (born 1974)

Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language

Theo de Raadt
Leader of the OpenBSD project

Miguel de Icaza
Mexican free software developer

Matthias Ettrich
German programmer, founder of the KDE project
Hal Abelson
computer scientist
Patrick Volkerding
American software engineer
Bram Moolenaar
Dutch programmer (1961–2023)
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American entrepreneur
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
Eric Allman
American computer programmer
Blake Ross
American software developer
Michael Widenius
Finnish software programmer
Jamie Zawinski
American programmer
Gerald Jay Sussman
American computer scientist
John Resig
programmer, creator of jQuery
Valerie Aurora
American computer scientist and activist
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American computer scientist, free software developer
Joe Armstrong
British computer scientist (1950-2019)
Dries Buytaert
computer programmer

Larry Ewing
American software programmer
Andrew Morton
Australian software engineer
Andrew Tridgell
Australian computer programmer
Werner Koch
German free software developer
Ingo Molnár
Linux kernel programmer
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
Jordan Hubbard
American computer programmer
Brian Behlendorf
executive, director, and software programmer
Ilya Zhitomirskiy
software developer (1989-2011)
Stefano Zacchiroli
Italian computer scientist (1979-)
Danese Cooper
American advocate of open source software
Lennart Poettering
German software engineer
Benjamin Mako Hill
Debian hacker, intellectual property researcher, activist and author
Brian Fox
American computer programmer
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English programmer
Jono Bacon
British writer and software engineer
William John Sullivan
American software programmer
Roy Fielding
American computer scientist
Paul Vixie
American internet pioneer
John Gilmore
Internet activist, software programmer and contributor to the GNU project
Lee Daniel Crocker
American software programmer
Igor Sysoev
creator and developer of the nginx Web server
L Peter Deutsch
Free software programmer and creator of Ghostscript (born 1946)
Ben Goodger
New Zealand software programmer
Keith Packard
American software programmer
Havoc Pennington
American computer engineer and entrepreneur
William Jolitz
American software programmer