List of computer scientists

A computer scientist is a practitioner of computer science.

Famous computer scientists (in alphabetical order) include:

• Charles Babbage
• George Boole
• Stephen Cook
• Gregory Chaitin
• Kurt Godel
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Admiral Grace Hopper
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
• Donald Knuth
• Ada Lovelace
• Marvin Minsky
• John von Neumann
• Roger Needham
• Claude Shannon
• Alan Turing
• Niklaus Wirth

Note: Some of these people pre-date the invention of the digital computer, but they are regarded as computer scientists because their work can be seen as leading to the invention of the computer. Others are mathematicians whose work falls within what would now be called theoretical computer science, such as complexity theory and algorithmic information theory.