Notable computer scientists
From Dr. Joey Paquet Web Site
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Programming languages
- John Backus
- Ole-Johan Dahl
- Edsger Dijkstra
- Robert Floyd
- Adele Goldberg
- James Gosling
- Anders Hejlsberg
- Tony Hoare
- Grace Hopper
- Alan Kay
- Gregor Kiczales
- Donald Knuth
- Leslie Lamport
- Peter J. Landin
- Rasmus Lerdorf
- Barbara Liskov
- Ada Lovelace
- Yukihiro Matsumoto
- John Mauchly
- John McCarthy
- Robin Milner
- Peter Naur
- Kristen Nygaard
- David Parnas
- Alan Perlis
- Dennis Ritchie
- Jean Sammet
- Christopher Strachey
- Ken Thompson
- Bjarne Stroustrup
- Alan Turing
- Guido Van Rossum
- John von Neumann
- Larry Wall
- David Wheeler
- Maurice Wilkes
- Niklaus Wirth
- Konrad Zuse
Software engineering
- Kent Beck
- Barry Boehm
- Fred Brooks
- Alistair Cockburn
- Ward Cunningham
- Erich Gamma
- Watts Humphrey
- Ivar Jacobson
- Philippe Kruchten
- Craig Larman
- Harlan Mills
- David Parnas
Theory & mathematics
- Alonzo Church
- Kurt Gödel
- David Hilbert
- Tony Hoare
- Stephen Cole Kleene
- Donald Knuth
- Saul Kripke
- Bernhard Riemann
- Dana Scott
- Alan Turing
- John von Neumann
Others
- Richard Stallman
- Douglas McIlroy
- Edgar F. Codd
- Marvin Minsky
- Noam Chomsky
- Bob Kahn
- Charles Babbage
- John Vincent Atanasoff