Microsoft employees

William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.

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.

Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she attended Duke University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and an MBA. She joined Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer. In the same year, she began dating the company's co-founder and then-chief executive Bill Gates, whom she married in 1994 and divorced in 2021. They have three children together.

American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft

American computer programmer

American computer programmer and businessman

Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft

Russian–American engineer, manager and former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation

Dutch programmer and creator of Python

British computer scientist

Russian video game designer (born 1955)

American computer scientist

Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)

American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)

American video game designer, director, and producer (born 1970)

Mexican free software developer

Danish software engineer (born 1960)

Indian-American businessperson

co-founder of Valve Corporation

American video game designer (born 1967)

computer scientist, specialising in AI ethics

Taiwanese businessman

American businessman

American computer engineer (1934–2024)

American computer engineer; created Gmail

former chief executive officer of Nokia Corporation

American blogger

American computer programmer

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1956)

Norwegian jurist and politician

American business executive (born 1968)

American politician

Engineer and engineering manager

British computer scientist

German software engineer

Spanish-born American software engineer

American computer scientist

Turkish-British entrepreneur (born 1984)

former CTO at Microsoft

British businessman (born 1955)

American typographer

American computer scientist, Microsoft vice president

American inventor and engineer (1938–2019)

American computer scientist

American businessperson and board member; EVP and CFO at Microsoft; director at 3M

software engineer, multi-published author, public speaker

founder and president of the Ashesi University

computer scientist

American mathematician (1947–2020)

American political consultant

US computer programmer and author

American computer scientist (1935-2013)

American technologist, creator of Microformats.org

scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh

game programmer

American businessman, former Microsoft engineer

American blogger

American lawyer and CLO of Microsoft (born 1959)

American computer programmer

American cryptographer