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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

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[?]

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