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Michael Abrash - Popularized Mode X for DOS. This allows for faster video refresh and square pixels.
Scott Adams - one of earliest developers of CP/M and DOS games
Leonard Adleman - co-creator of RSA algorithm (the A in the name stands for Adleman), coined the term computer virus
Alfred Aho - co-creator of AWK (the A in the name stands for Aho), and main author of famous Dragon book
JJ Allaire - creator of ColdFusion Application Server, ColdFusion Markup Language
Andrei Alexandrescu - author, expert C++, D languages
Paul Allen - Altair BASIC, Applesoft BASIC, co-founded Microsoft
Eric Allman - sendmail, syslog
Marc Andreessen - co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape
Jeremy Ashkenas - creator of the CoffeeScript programming language and Backbone.js
Bill Atkinson - QuickDraw, HyperCard

B

John Backus - FORTRAN, BNF
Richard Bartle - MUD, with Roy Trubshaw, creator of MUDs
Brian Behlendorf - Apache
Kent Beck - Created Extreme Programming and co-creator of JUnit
Donald Becker - Linux Ethernet drivers, Beowulf clustering
Doug Bell - Dungeon Master series of video games
Fabrice Bellard - Creator of FFMPEG open codec library, QEMU virtualization tools
Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of World Wide Web
Daniel J. Bernstein - djbdns, qmail
Sabeer Bhatia - Co-founded the Hotmail email service
Eric Bina - co-creator of Mosaic web browser
Marc Blank - co-creator of Zork
Joshua Bloch - core Java language designer, lead the Java collections framework project
Grady Booch - Co-creator of Unified Modeling Language
Bert Bos - author of Argo web browser, co-author of Cascading Style Sheets
Stephen Richard Bourne - Creator of Bourne shell
David Bradley - coder on the IBM PC project team who wrote the Control-Alt-Delete keyboard handler, embedded in all PC-compatible BIOSes
Andrew Braybrook - video games Paradroid and Uridium
Larry Breed - co-developer of APL\360
Jack E. Bresenham - creator of Bresenham's line algorithm
Dan Bricklin - co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program
Walter Bright - Digital Mars, First C++ compiler, author of D (programming language).
Richard Brodie - Microsoft Word
Andries Brouwer - Hack, former maintainer of man pager ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Man, Linux kernel hacker
Danielle Bunten Berry (Dani Bunten) - M.U.L.E., multiplayer video game and other noted video games
Dries Buytaert - Creator of Drupal

C

Steve Capps - co-creator of Macintosh and Newton
John D. Carmack - first person shooters Doom, Quake
Vinton Cerf - TCP/IP, NCP
Ward Christensen - Wrote the first BBS (Bulletin Board System) system CBBS
Edgar F. Codd - principal architect of the relational model
Bram Cohen - BitTorrent protocol design and implementation
Alain Colmerauer - Prolog
Alan Cooper - Visual Basic
Alan Cox - co-developer of Linux kernel
Brad Cox - Objective-C
Mike Cowlishaw - REXX and NetRexx, LEXX editor, image processing, decimal arithmetic packages
Mark Crispin - creator of IMAP, author of UW-IMAP, one of reference implementations of IMAP4
Ward Cunningham - creator of Wiki concept
William Crowther - Colossal Cave Adventure
Dave Cutler - architect of VMS, Windows NT

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Ole-Johan Dahl - co-creator of SIMULA
James Duncan Davidson - creator of Tomcat, now part of Jakarta Project
L. Peter Deutsch - Ghostscript, Assembler for PDP-1, XDS-940 timesharing system, QED original co-author
Edsger Dijkstra - contributions to ALGOL, Dijkstra's algorithm, Goto Statement Considered Harmful
Matt Dillon - programmer of various software including DICE and DragonflyBSD
Jack Dorsey - creator of Twitter
Martin Dougiamas - creator and lead developer of Moodle
Adam Dunkels - author of Contiki operating system, the lwIP and uIP embedded TCP/IP stacks, inventor of protothreads

E

Les Earnest - author of finger program
Brendan Eich - creator of JavaScript
Larry Ellison - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
Marc Ewing - creator of Red Hat Linux

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Dan Farmer - Creator of COPS and Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN) Security Scanners
Stuart Feldman - creator of make, author of Fortran 77 compiler, part of original group that created Unix
David Filo - co-creator of Yahoo!
Brad Fitzpatrick - creator of memcached, Livejournal and OpenID
Andrew Fluegelman - author PC-Talk communications software; considered a co-creator of shareware
Brian Fox - creator of Bash, Readline, GNU Finger, Meta-HTML
Martin Fowler - Creator of Dependency Injection pattern of software engineering, a form of Inversion of control
Jim Fruchterman - founder of Arkenstone (now part of Freedom Scientific) and Benetech, created scanners for blind people

G

Gennady Korotkevich - Belarusian Sports programmer,Winner of ACM ICPC 2013
Elon Gasper - co-founded Bright Star Technology, patented realistic facial movements for in-game speech. HyperAnimator, Alphabet Blocks, etc.
Bill Gates - Altair BASIC, co-founded Microsoft
Steve Gibson - creator of SpinRite
John Gilmore - GDB
Adele Goldberg - co-creator of Smalltalk
Ryan C. Gordon (a.k.a. Icculus) - Lokigames, ioquake3, MojoSetup, etc.
James Gosling - Java, Gosling Emacs, NeWS
Bill Gosper - Macsyma, Lisp machine, hashlife, helped Donald Knuth on Vol.2 of The Art of Computer Programming (Semi-numerical algorithms)
Andrew Gower - RuneScape Classic, RuneScape, co-founded Jagex
Paul Gower - RuneScape Classic, RuneScape, co-founded Jagex
Paul Graham - Yahoo! Store, On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp
John Graham-Cumming - author of POPFile, a Bayesian filter-based e-mail classifier
Ralph Griswold - co-creator of SNOBOL, creator of Icon (programming language)
Richard Greenblatt - Lisp machine, Incompatible Timesharing System, MacHack
Scott Guthrie, (a.k.a. ScottGu) - ASP.NET Creator
Andi Gutmans - co-creator of PHP programming language

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Jim Hall - started the FreeDOS project
David Heinemeier Hansson - created the Ruby on Rails framework for developing web applications.
David Albert Huffman - created the Huffman Code compression algorithm.
Rebecca Heineman - Author of Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate and Dragon Wars.
Anders Hejlsberg - Turbo Pascal, Borland Delphi,C#,TypeScript
Ted Henter - founder of Henter-Joyce (now part of Freedom Scientific) creator of Jaws, screen reader software for blind people
Andy Hertzfeld - co-creator of Macintosh, co-founder of General Magic, co-founder of Eazel
Rich Hickey - creator of Clojure language
D. Richard Hipp - creator of SQLite
C. A. R. Hoare - first implementation of quicksort, ALGOL 60 compiler, Communicating sequential processes
James Holmes - Committer on Struts project, create of Struts Console
Grace Hopper - Harvard Mark I computer, FLOW-MATIC, COBOL
Dave Hyatt - co-author of Mozilla Firefox

I

Miguel de Icaza - GNOME project leader, initiator of Mono project
Roberto Ierusalimschy - Lua leading architect
Dan Ingalls - co-creator of Smalltalk and Bitblt
Geir Ivarsøy - co-creator of Opera web browser
Ken Iverson - APL, J
Toru Iwatani - creator of Pac-Man

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Bo Jangeborg - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games
Paul Jardetzky - author of server program for the first webcam
Lynne Jolitz - 386BSD
William Jolitz - 386BSD
Stephen C. Johnson - yacc
Bill Joy - BSD, csh, vi, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Robert K. Jung - creator of ARJ

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Poul-Henning Kamp - MD5 password hash algorithm, FreeBSD GEOM and GBDE, part of the UFS2, FreeBSD Jails, malloc and the Beerware license
Mitch Kapor - Lotus 1-2-3, founded Lotus Development Corporation
Phil Katz - creator of ZIP file format, author of PKZIP
Alan Kay - Smalltalk, Dynabook, Object-oriented programming, Squeak
Mel Kaye - a real programmer^[୧]
John Kemeny - co-creator of BASIC
Stan Kelly-Bootle - Manchester Mark 1, The Devil's DP Dictionary
Brian Kernighan - co-creator of AWK (the K in the name stands for Kernighan), author of ditroff text-formatting tool
Gary Kildall - CP/M
Tom Knight - Incompatible Timesharing System
Jim Knopf - aka Jim Button, author PC-File flatfile database; considered a co-creator of shareware
Donald E. Knuth - TeX, CWEB, Metafont, The Art of Computer Programming, Concrete Mathematics
Andrew R. Koenig - (co-)author of books on C and C++ and former Project Editor of the ISO/ANSI standards committee for C++

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Andre LaMothe- LaMothe is the creator of the XGameStation,one of the world's first video game console development kits
Tom Lane - primary author of libjpeg, major developer of PostgreSQL
Leslie Lamport - LaTeX
Butler Lampson - QED original co-author
Sam Lantinga - creator of SDL
Dick Lathwell - co-developer of APL\360
Chris Lattner - primary author of Low Level Virtual Machine project
Samuel J Leffler - BSD, FlexFAX, libtiff, FreeBSD Wireless Device Drivers
Rasmus Lerdorf - original creator of PHP
Michael Lesk - Lex
Gordon Letwin - Architect of OS/2, author of HPFS file system
Rockford Lhotka - Creator of the CSLA framework
Håkon Wium Lie - co-author of Cascading Style Sheets
Robert Love - Linux kernel developer
Ada Lovelace - First programmer (of Charles Babbages' Analytical Engine)
Al Lowe - creator of Leisure Suit Larry series

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Raphael Manfredi - contributions to Perl, software architect and maintainer of gtk-gnutella
Khaled Mardam-Bey - Creator of mIRC (Internet Relay Chat Client)
Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby
John McCarthy - Lisp
Craig McClanahan - original author of Jakarta Struts, architect of Tomcat Catalina servlet container
Daniel D. McCracken - professor at City College and author of Guide to Algol Programming, Guide to Cobol Programming, Guide to Fortran Programming (1957)
Douglas McIlroy - pipes and filters, concept of software componentry, Unix tools (spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, tr, etc.)
Shawn McKenzie - AutoTheme
Marshall Kirk McKusick - BSD, work on FFS, implementor of soft updates
Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel, Object-oriented Software Construction, Design by contract
Scott Meyers - author, software consultant, C++ expert
Bob Miner - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
Jeff Minter - Psychedelic, and often llama-related video games
Lou Montulli - creator of Lynx browser, cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, HTTP over SSL, browser integration with animated GIFs, founding member of HTML working group at W3C
Bram Moolenaar - author of text-editor Vim
David Moon - Maclisp, ZetaLisp
Charles H. Moore - creator of Forth language
Roger Moore - co-developer of APL\360, creator of IPSANET, co-founder of I.P. Sharp Associates
Matt Mullenweg - Author of WordPress
Mike Muuss - author of ping, network tool to detect hosts

N

Patrick Naughton - early Java designer, xlock, HotJava
Peter Naur - Backus-Naur form, ALGOL 60
Fredrik Neij - co-creator of The Pirate Bay
Graham Nelson - creator of Inform authoring system for Interactive fiction
Peter Norton - programmer of the famous utility program, Norton Utilities
Kristen Nygaard - SIMULA

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Ed Oates - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
Martin Odersky - Scala
Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Andrew and Philip Oliver, The Oliver Twins - Many Sinclair ZX Spectrum games including Dizzy
John Ousterhout - creator of Tcl/Tk
Onel de Guzman - A Filipino Programmer who created the ILOVEYOU virus on May 4, 2000.

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Larry Page - Co-founder of Google, Inc.
Alexey Pajitnov - creator of game Tetris on Electronica 60
Seymour Papert - Logo (programming language)
Tim Paterson - author of 86-DOS (QDOS)
Markus Persson - Creator of Minecraft
Petr Mitrichev - considered one of the best algorithmists in the world today
Jeffrey Peterson - key free and open source software architect, creator of Quepasa
Charles Petzold - author of many Microsoft Windows programming books
Rob Pike - Wrote first bitmapped window system for Unix, co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding, author of text editor sam and programming environment acme, main author of Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems, and co-author of the Go (programming language)
Kent Pitman - technical contributor to the ANSI Common Lisp standard

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Theo de Raadt - Founding member of NetBSD, founder of OpenBSD and OpenSSH
Jef Raskin - started the Macintosh project in Apple Computer, designed Canon Cat computer, developed The Humane Environment program
Eric Raymond - Open Source movement, author of fetchmail
Hans Reiser - Creator of ReiserFS file system.
John Resig - Creator and lead developer of jQuery JavaScript library
Craig Reynolds - Creator of boids computer graphics simulation
Dennis Ritchie - C, Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Inferno
Ron Rivest - co-creator of RSA algorithm (the R in the name stands for Rivest). Creator of RC4 and MD5.
John Romero - first person shooters Doom, Quake
Blake Ross - co-author of Mozilla Firefox
Guido van Rossum - Python
Jeff Rulifson - Lead programmer on the NLS project
Rusty Russell - Creator of iptables for linux
Steve Russell - First Lisp interpreter; original Spacewar! graphic video game.
Mark Russinovich - Sysinternals.com, Filemon, Regmon, Process Explorer, TCPView and RootkitRevealer

S

Bob Sabiston - Rotoshop, interpolating rotoscope animation software
Muni Sakya - Nepalese software
Carl Sassenrath - Amiga, REBOL
Chris Sawyer - Developer of Roller Coaster Tycoon and the Transport Tycoon series
Bill Schelter - GNU Maxima, GNU Common Lisp
Randal L. Schwartz - Just another Perl hacker
Adi Shamir - co-creator of RSA algorithm (the S in the name stands for Shamir)
Mike Shaver - Founding member of Mozilla Organization
Cliff Shaw - IPL, the first AI language
Zed Shaw - Wrote the Mongrel Web Server, for Ruby web applications.
Emily Short - prolific writer of Interactive fiction and co-developer of Inform version 7
Jacek Sieka - Developer of DC++ an open-source, peer-to-peer file-sharing client
Ken Silverman - creator of Duke Nukem 3D's graphics engine
Charles Simonyi - Hungarian notation, Bravo (the first WYSIWYG text editor), Microsoft Word.
Colin Simpson - developer of CircuitLogix simulation software
Rich Skrenta - co-founder of Open Directory Project
Matthew Smith - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, including Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy
Henry Spencer - C News, Regex
Joel Spolsky - Co-founder of Fog Creek Software and Stack Overflow
Quentin Stafford-Fraser - author of original VNC viewer, first Windows VNC server, client program for the first webcam
Richard Stallman - Emacs, GCC, GDB, founder and pioneer of GNU Project, terminal-independent I/O pioneer on ITS, Lisp machine manual
Guy Steele - Common Lisp, Scheme, Java
Alexander Stepanov - Creator of Standard Template Library
Ludvig Strigeus - Creator of uTorrent, OpenTTD, ScummVM and the technology behind Spotify
Bjarne Stroustrup - Creator of C++
Zeev Suraski - co-creator of PHP language
Gerald Jay Sussman - Scheme
Herb Sutter - Chair of the ISO C++ standards committee and C++ expert.
Gottfrid Svartholm - co-creator of The Pirate Bay
Tim Sweeney - The Unreal engine, UnrealScript, ZZT

T

Andrew Tanenbaum - Minix
Audrey "Autrijus" Tang - designer of Pugs
Simon Tatham - NASM, PuTTY
Larry Tesler - the PUB markup language, the Smalltalk code browser, debugger and object inspector, and (with Tim Mott) the Gypsy word processor
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner - co-creator of Opera web browser
Avie Tevanian - author of Mach kernel
Ken Thompson - main designer and author of Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems, B and Bon languages (precursors of C), creator of UTF-8 character encoding, introduced regular expressions in QED and co-author of the Go (programming language)
Michael Tiemann - G++, GCC
Linus Torvalds - original author and current maintainer of Linux kernel and creator of Git, a source code management system
Andrew Tridgell - Samba, Rsync
Roy Trubshaw - MUD - together with Richard Bartle, creator of MUDs
Bob Truel - co-founder of Open Directory Project

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V

Wietse Venema - Postfix, Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN), TCP Wrapper
Pat Villani - original author of the FreeDOS/DOS-C kernel, maintainer of a defunct "Linux for Windows 9x" distribution
Paul Vixie - BIND, Cron
Patrick Volkerding - Original author and the current maintainer of Slackware Linux Distribution

W

Larry Wall - Warp (1980s space-war game), rn, patch, Perl
Bob Wallace - author PC-Write word processor; considered a co-creator of shareware
John Walker - co-founder of Autodesk
John Warnock - creator of PostScript
Joseph Weizenbaum - creator of ELIZA
Robert Watson - FreeBSD network stack parallelism, TrustedBSD project and OpenBSM
Pei-Yuan Wei - author of Viola, one of earliest graphical browsers
Peter J. Weinberger - co-creator of AWK (the W in the name stands for Weinberger)
Andrew Welch - author of Maelstrom, Snapz Pro; founder of Ambrosia Software
David Wheeler - co-creator of subroutine; designer of WAKE; co-designer of Tiny Encryption Algorithm, XTEA, Burrows-Wheeler transform.
Arthur Whitney - A+, K
why the lucky stiff - creator of libraries and writing for Ruby, as well as a quirky and popular guide to learning programming
Bruce Wilcox - creator of Computer Go, programmed NEMESIS Go Master.
Evan Williams Creator and co-founder of Twitter
Roberta and Ken Williams -- Sierra Entertainment, King's Quest, graphic adventure game
Sophie Wilson - Designer of instruction set for Acorn RISC Machine, author of BBC BASIC.
Dave Winer - developed XML-RPC, Frontier scripting language
Niklaus Wirth - Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon
Stephen Wolfram - creator of Mathematica
Don Woods - INTERCAL, Colossal Cave Adventure
Steve Wozniak - Breakout, Apple Integer BASIC, co-founder of Apple Inc.
Will Wright - Created the Sim City series and co-founded Maxis

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Jerry Yang - co-creator of Yahoo!
Victor Yngve - author of first string processing language, COMIT
Haruyasu Yoshizaki - created the compression utility LHA

Z

Jamie Zawinski - Lucid Emacs, Netscape, Mozilla, XScreenSaver
Philip Zimmermann - creator of encryption software PGP, the ZRTP protocol, and Zfone
Mark Zuckerberg - Creator of Facebook

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