List of programmers: Difference between revisions

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

See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists Free Software authors

A - B - C - D-F - G-H - I-J - K-L - M - N-R - S - T-V - W-Z

A

• Clifford Adams - author of the UseModWiki wiki software
• Leonard Adleman - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the A in the name stands for Adleman), coined the term computer virus
• Alfred Aho - co-creator of AWK programming language (the A in the name stands for Aho)
• Paul Allen - Altair BASIC, Apple II BASIC, co-founded Microsoft
• Eric Allman - sendmail, syslog
• Marc Andreessen - co-creator of Mosaic web browser, co-founder of Netscape
• 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, qmail
• Eric Bina - co-creator of Mosaic web browser
• Bert Bos - author of Argo web browser, co-author of Cascading Style Sheets
• David Bradley - coder on the IBM PC project team who wrote the Control-Alt-Delete keyboard handler, embedded in all PC-compatible operating systems
• Dan Bricklin - co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program
• Sergey Brin - co-creator of Google
• Richard Brodie - Microsoft Word
• Danielle Bunten Berry (Dani Bunten) - M.U.L.E., multiplayer video game

C

• Steve Capps - co-creator of Macintosh and Newton
• John Carmack - first person shooters DOOM, Quake
• Vinton Cerf - TCP/IP, NCP
• Steve Chamberlain - BFD, Cygwin
• Mike Cowlishaw - REXX and NetRexx, LEXX editor, image processing, decimal arithmetic packages
• Alan Cooper - Visual Basic
• Alan Cox - a developer of the Linux kernel
• Brad Cox - Objective-C
• Mark Crispin – inventor of IMAP, author of UW-IMAP, one of the reference implementations of IMAP4
• Ward Cunningham - inventor of the WikiWiki concept
• Dave Cutler - architect of Windows NT, VMS

D-F

• James Duncan Davidson - creator of Tomcat, now part of the Jakarta Project
• L. Peter Deutsch - Ghostscript
• Peter Deutsch - qed text editor original co-author
• Edsger Dijkstra - contributions to ALGOL, Dijkstra's algorithm, Go To Statement Considered Harmful
• Les Earnest - author of the finger program
• Larry Ellison - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
• Marc Ewing - creator of Red Hat Linux
• Jay Fenlason - original hack, GAS
• David Filo - co-creator of Yahoo!
• Peter Fraser - FRED text editor

G-H

• Bill Gates - Altair BASIC, Apple II BASIC, co-founded Microsoft
• John Gilmore - GDB
• Adele Goldberg - co-inventor of Smalltalk
• James Gosling - Java, Gosling Emacs, NeWS
• William Gosper - hashlife, Minskytron
• Paul Graham - Yahoo! Store, On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp
• Richard D. Greenblatt - Lisp machine, MacHack, Incompatible Timesharing System
• Ralph Griswold - co-creator of SNOBOL and creator of Icon programming language.
• Andi Gutmans - co-creator of PHP programming language
• Cecil Hastings - wrote the classic Approximations for Digital Computers 1950s formulas for sin, cos, etc.
• Anders Hejlsberg -- Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#
• Andy Hertzfeld - co-creator of Macintosh, co-founder of General Magic, co-founder of Eazel
• C. A. R. Hoare - first implementation of quicksort, Algol 60 compiler
• Grace Hopper - Navy Mark I computer, FLOW-MATIC (which heavily influenced COBOL)

I-J

• Miguel de Icaza - GNOME project leader
• Dan Ingalls - co-inventor of Smalltalk
• Toru Iwatani - creator of Pac Man
• Bo Jangeborg - ZX Spectrum games
• Steven C. Johnson - yacc
• Lynne Jolitz - 386BSD
• William Jolitz - 386BSD
• Bill Joy - BSD, vi; founded Sun Microsystems

K-L

• Ted Kaehler - co-inventor of Smalltalk
• Mitch Kapor - Lotus 1-2-3, founded Lotus Development Corporation
• Phil Katz - creator of the Zip (file format), author of PKZIP
• Mel Kaye [1], a Real Programmer
• Stan Kelly-Bootle - Manchester Mark I, The Devil's DP Dictionary
• Brian Kernighan - co-creator of AWK programming language (the K in the name stands for Kernighan), author of ditroff text-formatting tool
• Gary Kildall - CP/M
• Donald E. Knuth - TeX, CWEB, The Art of Computer Programming
• Leslie Lamport - LaTeX
• Butler Lampson - qed text editor original co-author
• Rasmus Lerdorf - original creator of PHP
• Michael Lesk - Lex
• HÃ¥kon Wium Lie - co-author of Cascading Style Sheets
• Ada Lovelace - First programmer (of Babbage Machines)

M

• Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby
• John McCarthy - Lisp
• Craig McClanahan - original author of Jakarta Struts, architect of Tomcat Catalina servlet container
• Douglas McIlroy - pipes and filters, concept of software components, Unix tools ( spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, tr, etc.)
• Marshall Kirk McKusick - BSD
• Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel, Object-oriented Software Construction, Design by contract
• 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, HTTPS over SSL, browser integration with animated GIFs, founding member of HTML working group at W3C
• Bram Moolenaar - author of text-editor Vim
• Dave Moon - MacLisp, ZetaLisp
• Chuck Moore - Forth
• Urban Müller - Brainfuck language
• Mike Muuss - author of Ping, network tool to detect hosts

N-R

• Col Needham - creator of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• Kristen Nygaard - SIMULA
• Ed Oates - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
• Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
• Andrew and Philip Oliver, The Oliver Twins - Many ZX Spectrum games including Dizzy
• Larry Page - co-creator of Google
• Tim Paterson - QDOS
• Alexey Pajitnov - inventor of the game Tetris on the Electronica 60
• Charles Petzold - author of many Microsoft Windows programming books
• Rob Pike - co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding, creator of editor sam, part of creation of Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems
• Jef Raskin - started the Macintosh project in Apple Computers, designed Canon Cat computer, developed The Humane Environment program
• Dennis Ritchie - C, Unix
• Ron Rivest - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the R in the name stands for Rivest)
• Mark Rochkind - SCCS, see SCM, SCM History
• Guido van Rossum - Python
• Eric Raymond - Open Source movement
• Steve Russell - First Lisp interpreter; Original Spacewar graphic computer game.

S

• Bill Schelter - GNU Maxima, GNU Common Lisp
• Adi Shamir - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the S in the name stands for Shamir)
• Cliff Shaw - IPL, the first AI language
• Charles Simonyi - Hungarian notation, Microsoft Word
• Henry Spencer - C-News, Regex
• Richard Stallman - Emacs, GCC, GDB, founder of the GNU Project
• Guy Steele - Common Lisp, Scheme
• Bjarne Stroustrup - C++
• Zeev Suraski - co-creator of PHP programming language
• Gerald Jay Sussman - Scheme
• Tim Sweeney - The Unreal engine, UnrealScript, ZZT

T-V

• Andrew Tanenbaum - Minix
• Larry Tesler - Gypsy
• Avie Tevanian - author of the Mach kernel
• Ken Thompson - Unix, B (precursor of C), Bon programming language, co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding, introduced regular expressions in qed text editor
• Michael Tiemann - GCC
• Linus Torvalds - original author and current maintainer of the Linux kernel
• Andrew Tridgell - Samba, Rsync
• Wietse Venema - Postfix, SATAN, TCP Wrapper
• Paul Vixie - BIND, Cron

W-Z

• Larry Wall - warp, rn, patch, Perl
• John Warnock - creator of PostScript
• Pei-Yuan Wei - author of Viola, one of the earliest graphical browsers
• Peter Weinberger - co-creator of AWK programming language (the W in the name stands for Weinberger)
• Roberta and Ken Williams -- Sierra, King's Quest, graphic adventure game
• Dave Winer – developed XML-RPC, Frontier scripting language
• Niklaus Wirth - Pascal
• Don Woods - INTERCAL, Colossal Cave Adventure
• Steve Wozniak - Breakout, Apple Integer BASIC, founded Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs)
• Jerry Yang - co-creator of Yahoo!
• Egon Zakrajšek - pioneer of computer science in Slovenia, texbooks for Z-23 assembler, structran
• Jamie Zawinski - Lucid Emacs, Netscape, Mozilla, XScreenSaver