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Michael Abrash - Popularized Mode X for DOS. This allows for faster video refresh and square pixels.
Scott Adams - one of earliest developers of CP/M and DOS games
Leonard Adleman - co-creator of RSA algorithm (the A in the name stands for Adleman), coined the term computer virus
Alfred Aho - co-creator of AWK (the A in the name stands for Aho), and main author of famous Dragon book
JJ Allaire - creator of ColdFusion Application Server, ColdFusion Markup Language
Andrei Alexandrescu - author, expert C++, D languages
Paul Allen - Altair BASIC, Applesoft BASIC, co-founded Microsoft
Eric Allman - sendmail, syslog
Marc Andreessen - co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape
Bill Atkinson - QuickDraw, HyperCard

[edit]B

John Backus - FORTRAN, BNF
Richard Bartle - MUD, with Roy Trubshaw, creator of MUDs
Brian Behlendorf - Apache
Kent Beck - Created Extreme Programming and co-creator of JUnit
Donald Becker - Linux Ethernet drivers, Beowulf clustering
Doug Bell - Dungeon Master series of video games
Fabrice Bellard - Creator of FFMPEG open codec library, QEMU virtualization tools
Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of World Wide Web
Daniel J. Bernstein - djbdns, qmail
Eric Bina - co-creator of Mosaic web browser
Marc Blank - co-creator of Zork
Joshua Bloch - core Java language designer, lead the Java collections framework project
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 BIOSes
Andrew Braybrook - video games Paradroid and Uridium
Larry Breed - co-developer of APL\360
Jack E. Bresenham - creator of Bresenham's line algorithm
Dan Bricklin - co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program
Walter Bright - Digital Mars, First C++ compiler, author of D (programming language).
Richard Brodie - Microsoft Word
Grady Booch - Co-creator of Unified Modeling Language
Stephen Bourne - Creator of Bourne shell
Andries Brouwer - Hack, former maintainer of man pager man(1), Linux kernel hacker
Danielle Bunten Berry (Dani Bunten) - M.U.L.E., multiplayer video game
Dries Buytaert - Creator of Drupal
Sabeer Bhatia - Co-founded the Hotmail email service

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Steve Capps - co-creator of Macintosh and Newton
John D. Carmack - first person shooters Doom, Quake
Vinton Cerf - TCP/IP, NCP
Ward Christensen - Wrote the first BBS (Bulletin Board System) system CBBS
Edgar F. Codd - principal architect of the relational model
Bram Cohen - BitTorrent protocol design and implementation
Alain Colmerauer - Prolog
Alan Cooper - Visual Basic
Alan Cox - co-developer of Linux kernel
Brad Cox - Objective-C
Mike Cowlishaw - REXX and NetRexx, LEXX editor, image processing, decimal arithmetic packages
Mark Crispin - creator of IMAP, author of UW-IMAP, one of reference implementations of IMAP4
Ward Cunningham - creator of Wiki concept
William Crowther - Colossal Cave Adventure
Dave Cutler - architect of VMS, Windows NT

[edit]D

Ole-Johan Dahl - co-creator of SIMULA
James Duncan Davidson - creator of Tomcat, now part of Jakarta Project
L. Peter Deutsch - Ghostscript, Assembler for PDP-1, XDS-940 timesharing system, QED original co-author
Edsger Dijkstra - contributions to ALGOL, Dijkstra's algorithm, Goto Statement Considered Harmful
Matt Dillon - programmer of various software including DICE and DragonflyBSD
Martin Dougiamas - creator and lead developer of Moodle
Adam Dunkels - author of Contiki operating system, the lwIP and uIP embedded TCP/IP stacks, inventor of protothreads

[edit]E

Les Earnest - author of finger program
Brendan Eich - creator of JavaScript
Larry Ellison - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
Marc Ewing - creator of Red Hat Linux

[edit]F

Dan Farmer - Creator of COPS and SATAN Security Scanners
Stuart Feldman - creator of make, author of Fortran 77 compiler, part of original group that created Unix
David Filo - co-creator of Yahoo!
Brad Fitzpatrick - creator of memcached, Livejournal and OpenID
Andrew Fluegelman - author PC-Talk communications software; considered a co-creator of shareware
Brian Fox - creator of Bash, Readline, GNU Finger, Meta-HTML
Jim Fruchterman - founder of Arkenstone (now part of Freedom Scientific) and Benetech, created scanners for blind people

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Elon Gasper - co-founded Bright Star Technology, patented realistic facial movements for in-game speech. HyperAnimator, Alphabet Blocks, etc.
Bill Gates - Altair BASIC, co-founded Microsoft
Steve Gibson - creator of SpinRite
John Gilmore - GDB
Adele Goldberg - co-creator of Smalltalk
Ryan C. Gordon (a.k.a. Icculus) - Lokigames, ioquake3, MojoSetup, etc.
James Gosling - Java, Gosling Emacs, NeWS
Bill Gosper - Macsyma, Lisp machine, hashlife, helped Donald Knuth on Vol.2 of The Art of Computer Programming (Semi-numerical algorithms)
Andrew Gower - RuneScape Classic, RuneScape, co-founded Jagex
Paul Gower - RuneScape Classic, RuneScape, co-founded Jagex
Paul Graham - Yahoo! Store, On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp
John Graham-Cumming - author of POPFile, a Bayesian filter-based e-mail classifier
Ralph Griswold - co-creator of SNOBOL, creator of Icon (programming language)
Richard Greenblatt - Lisp machine, Incompatible Timesharing System, MacHack
Scott Guthrie, (a.k.a. ScottGu) - ASP.NET Creator
Andi Gutmans - co-creator of PHP programming language

[edit]H

Jim Hall - started the FreeDOS project
David Heinemeier Hansson - created the Ruby on Rails framework for developing web applications.
David Albert Huffman - created the Huffman Code compression algorithm.
Rebecca Heineman - Author of Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate and Dragon Wars.
Anders Hejlsberg - Turbo Pascal, Borland Delphi, C#
Ted Henter - founder of Henter-Joyce (now part of Freedom Scientific) creator of Jaws, screen reader software for blind people
Andy Hertzfeld - co-creator of Macintosh, co-founder of General Magic, co-founder of Eazel
Rich Hickey - creator of Clojure language
D. Richard Hipp - creator of SQLite
C. A. R. Hoare - first implementation of quicksort, ALGOL 60 compiler, Communicating sequential processes
James Holmes - Committer on Struts project, create of Struts Console
Grace Hopper - Harvard Mark I computer, FLOW-MATIC, COBOL
Dave Hyatt - co-author of Mozilla Firefox

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Miguel de Icaza - GNOME project leader, initiator of Mono project
Roberto Ierusalimschy - Lua leading architect
Dan Ingalls - co-creator of Smalltalk and Bitblt
Geir Ivarsøy - co-creator of Opera web browser
Ken Iverson - APL, J
Toru Iwatani - creator of Pac-Man

[edit]J

Bo Jangeborg - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games
Paul Jardetzky - author of server program for the first webcam
Lynne Jolitz - 386BSD
William Jolitz - 386BSD
Stephen C. Johnson - yacc
Bill Joy - BSD, csh, vi, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Robert K. Jung - creator of ARJ

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Poul-Henning Kamp - MD5 password hash algorithm, FreeBSD GEOM and GBDE, part of the UFS2, FreeBSD Jails, malloc and the Beerware license
Mitch Kapor - Lotus 1-2-3, founded Lotus Development Corporation
Phil Katz - creator of ZIP file format, author of PKZIP
Alan Kay - Smalltalk, Dynabook, Object-oriented programming, Squeak
Mel Kaye - a real programmer^[1]
John Kemeny - co-creator of BASIC
Stan Kelly-Bootle - Manchester Mark 1, The Devil's DP Dictionary
Brian Kernighan - co-creator of AWK (the K in the name stands for Kernighan), author of ditroff text-formatting tool
Gary Kildall - CP/M
Tom Knight - Incompatible Timesharing System
Jim Knopf - aka Jim Button, author PC-File flatfile database; considered a co-creator of shareware
Donald E. Knuth - TeX, CWEB, Metafont, The Art of Computer Programming, Concrete Mathematics
Andrew R. Koenig - (co-)author of books on C and C++ and former Project Editor of the ISO/ANSI standards committee for C++

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Andre LaMothe- LaMothe is the creator of the XGameStation,one of the world's first video game console development kits
Tom Lane - primary author of libjpeg, major developer of PostgreSQL
Leslie Lamport - LaTeX
Butler Lampson - QED original co-author
Sam Lantinga - creator of SDL
Dick Lathwell - co-developer of APL\360
Chris Lattner - primary author of Low Level Virtual Machine project
Samuel J Leffler - BSD, FlexFAX, libtiff, FreeBSD Wireless Device Drivers
Rasmus Lerdorf - original creator of PHP
Michael Lesk - Lex
Gordon Letwin - Architect of OS/2, author of HPFS file system
Rockford Lhotka - Creator of the CSLA framework
Håkon Wium Lie - co-author of Cascading Style Sheets
Robert Love - Linux kernel developer
Ada Lovelace - First programmer (of Charles Babbages' Analytical Engine)
Al Lowe - creator of Leisure Suit Larry series

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Raphael Manfredi - contributions to Perl, software architect and maintainer of gtk-gnutella
Khaled Mardam-Bey - Creator of mIRC (Internet Relay Chat Client)
Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby
John McCarthy - Lisp
Craig McClanahan - original author of Jakarta Struts, architect of Tomcat Catalina servlet container
Daniel D. McCracken - professor at City College and author of Guide to Algol Programming, Guide to Cobol Programming, Guide to Fortran Programming (1957)
Douglas McIlroy - pipes and filters, concept of software componentry, Unix tools (spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, tr, etc.)
Shawn McKenzie - AutoTheme
Marshall Kirk McKusick - BSD, work on FFS, implementor of soft updates
Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel, Object-oriented Software Construction, Design by contract
Scott Meyers - author, software consultant, C++ expert
Bob Miner - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
Jeff Minter - Psychedelic, and often llama-related video game
Lou Montulli - creator of Lynx browser, cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, HTTP over SSL, browser integration with animated GIFs, founding member of HTML working group at W3C
Bram Moolenaar - author of text-editor Vim
David Moon - Maclisp, ZetaLisp
Charles H. Moore - creator of Forth language
Roger Moore - co-developer of APL\360, creator of IPSANET, co-founder of I.P. Sharp Associates
Mike Muuss - author of ping, network tool to detect hosts

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Patrick Naughton - early Java designer, xlock, HotJava
Peter Naur - Backus-Naur form, ALGOL 60
Graham Nelson - creator of Inform authoring system for Interactive fiction
Peter Norton - programmer of the famous utility program, Norton Utilities
Kristen Nygaard - SIMULA

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Ed Oates - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
Martin Odersky - Scala
Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Andrew and Philip Oliver, The Oliver Twins - Many Sinclair ZX Spectrum games including Dizzy
John Ousterhout - creator of Tcl/Tk
Onel de Guzman - A Filipino Programmer who created the ILOVEYOU virus on May 4, 2000.

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Larry Page - Co-founder of Google, Inc.
Alexey Pajitnov - creator of game Tetris on Electronica 60
Seymour Papert - Logo (programming language)
Tim Paterson - author of 86-DOS (QDOS)
Markus Persson - Creator of Minecraft
Jeffrey Peterson - key free and open source software architect, creator of Quepasa
Charles Petzold - author of many Microsoft Windows programming books
Rob Pike - Wrote first bitmapped window system for Unix, co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding, author of text editor sam and programming environment acme, main author ofPlan 9 and Inferno operating systems
Kent Pitman - technical contributor to the ANSI Common Lisp standard