Programming language designers

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

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

Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)

American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)

German computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)

American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)

Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)

Canadian computer scientist

American computer scientist (1924–2007)

Dutch programmer and creator of Python

American computer scientist

American computer programmer and author

American computer scientist (born 1940)

Danish programmer and creator of PHP

Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system

American computer scientist (1922–1990)

Danish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference report

MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator (1928–2016)

British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)

Norwegian computer scientist (1931–2002)

American computer scientist (1945–2020)

Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College

Canadian computer scientist

Computer scientist, Mathematician (1926-2002)

Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language

Canadian computer scientist (1920–2004)

British computer scientist (1934-2010)

English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

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

computer scientist

Danish software engineer (born 1960)

software engineer

German computer scientist, inventor of Scala programming language

German computer scientist (1924–2015)

French computer scientist

British computer scientist (1922–2022)

American computer scientist and educator (1928–2024)

American computer scientist

Ukrainian Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist (1919–2001)

British computer scientist (1950-2019)

creator of the Tcl/Tk development environment

French computer scientist (1940-2007)

American computer scientist (1928-2017)

British computer scientist (1916–1975)

American computer scientist

american software developer known for designing compilers

American computer scientist

Brazilian computer scientist (born 1960)

Romanian computer scientist and author

Dutch computer scientist (1916-1987)

American computer programmer

British computer scientist

Russian computer scientist (1931–1988)

French computer scientist (1941-2017)

American mathematician and computer scientist (1923-2017)

Norwegian computer scientist (1930–2024)

Austrian computer pioneer (1920–2014)