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.

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

• Donald Becker - Linux Ethernet drivers, Beowulf clustering
• Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Web
• Brian Behlendorf[?] - Apache
• Dan Bricklin - co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program

• 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

• L. Peter Deutsch[?] - Ghostscript
• Edsger Dijkstra - early programmer, later a computer scientist

• Jay Fenlason[?] - original hack, GAS[?]

• 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[?]

• Andy Hertzfeld[?] - co-creator of Macintosh, co-founder of General Magic[?]
• Grace Hopper - Navy Mark I computer[?], COBOL

• Miguel de Icaza - GNOME project leader

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

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

• Ada Lovelace - First programmer (of Babbage Machines[?])

• 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

• Kristen Nygaard - SIMULA

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

• Bill Schelter - GNU Maxima, GNU Common Lisp[?]
• 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[?]

• 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

• Paul Vixie - BIND

• Larry Wall - warp[?], rn, patch, Perl
• Niklaus Wirth - Pascal
• Don Woods - INTERCAL, Colossal Cave Adventure
• Steve Wozniak - Breakout[?], Apple Integer BASIC[?], founded Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs)

• Jamie Zawinski - Lucid Emacs, Netscape, Mozilla, XScreensaver[?]