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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
- 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
- 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)
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