This is a list of people who are important or notable in the field of computing, but who are not primarily computer scientists or programmers.
A Alfred Aho, co-developer of the AWK Leonard Adleman, encryption (RSA) Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation
B Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web Stephen Bourne, developer of the Bourne shell
C John Carmack, realtime computer game graphics, id Software Noam Chomsky, linguist, language theorist (Chomsky hierarchy) and social critic
D Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects
E J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation Marc Ewing, creator of Red Hat Linux
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G Bill Gates, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft James Gosling, "father" of the Java programming language
H Grace Hopper, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.
I Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple
J Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, BSD
K Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, C programming language Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, TeX
L Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP Scripting Language Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and founder of the Creative Commons Ada Lovelace
M John William Mauchly, ENIAC John McCarthy, LISP programming language Bob Miner, co-founder of Oracle Corporation Marvin Minsky, AI luminary Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, Moore's Law Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, Inc, SpaceX,
N Roger Needham John von Neumann, theoretical computer science Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel and the founder of integrated circuit
P Sir John Anthony Pople, pioneer in computational chemistry Jon Postel, Internet pioneer, founder of IANA
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R Eric Raymond, Open source movement luminary Dennis Ritchie, Unix operating system and C programming language Ron Rivest, encryption (RSA) Guido van Rossum, Python (programming language) Benevolent Dictator For Life
S Adi Shamir, encryption (RSA) Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Richard Stallman, founder of GNU Olaf Storaasli, NASA Finite element machine Bjarne Stroustrup, founder of C++
T Ken Thompson, Unix and Plan 9 operating systems Linus Torvalds, Linux Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptographer
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W Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, computer critic Kevin Warwick, cyborg scientist, implant self-experimenter Niklaus Wirth, developed Pascal Peter J. Weinberger, co-developer of the AWK language Sophie Wilson, designer of the ARM instruction set Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, physicist, software developer, mathematician Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers
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Z Jill Zimmerman, James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College Konrad Zuse, built one of the first computers Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook
See also List of programmers List of computer scientists List of pioneers in computer science List of Russian IT developers