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John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor, best known for inventing the first electronic digital computer.
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Ralph Baer is a German-American video game pioneer, inventor and engineer, who is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry
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Jean E. Sammet is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962
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Adam Osborne was a Thailand-born British-American author, book and software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere.
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Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak, known as "Woz", is an American inventor, computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne.
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Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.
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James Arthur Gosling, OC is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language
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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS, also known as "TimBL," is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
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William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator.