List of programmers

This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions.

See also: List of computer scientists

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Clifford Adams - author of the UseModWiki wiki software
• Eric Allman - sendmail, syslog
• Bill Atkinson - QuickDraw, HyperCard

B

• Donald Becker - Linux Ethernet drivers, Beowulf clustering
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Web
• Brian Behlendorf - Apache
• Daniel J. Bernstein - djbdns
• Dan Bricklin - co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program

C

• Steve Capps - co-creator of Macintosh and Newton
• John Carmack - first person shooters Doom, Quake
• Steve Chamberlain - BFD, Cygwin
• Alan Cox - a developer of the Linux kernel
• Brad Cox - Objective-C
• Ward Cunningham - inventor of the WikiWiki concept
• Dave Cutler - architect of Windows NT, VMS

D

• L. Peter Deutsch - Ghostscript
• Edsger Dijkstra - ALGOL, Shortest Path First, 'GOTO considered harmful'

E

F

• Jay Fenlason - original hack, GAS

G

• Bill Gates - Altair BASIC, Apple II BASIC, founded Microsoft
• John Gilmore - GDB
• James Gosling - Java, Gosling Emacs, NeWS
• Paul Graham - Yahoo! Store, On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp
• Ralph Griswold - co-creator of SNOBOL and creator of Icon programming language.

H

• Cecil Hastings - wrote the classic Approximations for Digital Computers 1950s formulas for sin, cos, etc.
• Andy Hertzfeld - co-creator of Macintosh, co-founder of General Magic
• C. A. R. Hoare - first implementation of quicksort, Algol 60 compiler
• Grace Hopper - Navy Mark I computer, FLOW-MATIC (which heavily influenced COBOL)

I

• Miguel de Icaza - GNOME project leader

J

• Bo Jangeborg - ZX Spectrum games
• Steven C. Johnson - yacc
• Lynne Jolitz - 386BSD
• William Jolitz - 386BSD
• Bill Joy - BSD, vi; founded Sun Microsystems

K

• Mitch Kapor - Lotus 1-2-3, founded Lotus Development Corporation
• Stan Kelly-Bootle - Manchester Mark I, The Devil's DP Dictionary
• Brian Kernighan - AWK (co-author)
• Donald E. Knuth - TeX, CWEB, The Art of Computer Programming

L

• Michael Lesk - Lex
• Ada Lovelace - First programmer (of Babbage Machines)

M

• Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby
• John McCarthy - Lisp
• Douglas McIlroy - Unix tools
• Kirk McKusick - BSD
• Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel, Object-oriented Software Construction, Design by contract
• Jeff Minter - Psychedelic, and often llama-related video games
• Dave Moon - MacLisp, ZetaLisp
• Chuck Moore - Forth
• Urban Müller - Brainfuck language

N

• Kristen Nygaard - SIMULA

P

• Alexey Pajitnov - inventor of the game Tetris on the Electronica 60
• Charles Petzold - author of many Microsoft Windows programming books

Q

R

• Eric S. Raymond - fetchmail, The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Dennis Ritchie - C, Unix
• Mark Rochkind - SCCS, see SCM
• Guido van Rossum - Python

S

• Bill Schelter - GNU Maxima, GNU Common Lisp
• Cliff Shaw - IPL, the first AI language
• Charles Simonyi - Hungarian notation, Microsoft Word
• Henry Spencer - C-News,Regex
• Richard Stallman - Emacs, GCC, GNU
• Guy Steele - Common Lisp, Scheme
• Bjarne Stroustrup - C++
• Gerald Jay Sussman - Scheme
• Tim Sweeney - The Unreal engine, UnrealScript, ZZT

T

• Andrew Tanenbaum - Minix
• Avie Tevanian - author of the Mach kernel
• Ken Thompson - Unix, B (precursor of C)
• Michael Tiemann - GCC
• Linus Torvalds - original author of the Linux kernel
• Andrew Tridgell - Samba, Rsync

U

V

• Wietse Venema - Postfix, SATAN, TCP Wrapper
• Paul Vixie - BIND

W

• Larry Wall - warp, rn, patch, Perl
• David Wheeler - invented the subroutine
• Niklaus Wirth - Pascal
• Don Woods - INTERCAL, Colossal Cave Adventure
• Steve Wozniak - Breakout, Apple Integer BASIC, founded Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs)

X

Y

Z

• Egon Zakrajšek - pioneer of computer science in Slovenia, texbooks for Z-23 assembler, structran
• Jamie Zawinski - Lucid Emacs, Netscape, Mozilla, XScreensaver