Computer scientist Biographies

Contemporary era

Hal Finney

May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014

American software developer (1956-2014)

Contemporary era

Nick Szabo

b. April 5, 1964

American computer scientist

Contemporary era

David Chaum

b. 1955

American computer scientist and cryptographer

Contemporary era

Vitalik Buterin

b. January 31, 1994

Russian-Canadian computer scientist

Contemporary era

Gavin Wood

b. April 22, 1980

Decentralized internet pioneer

Contemporary era

Charlie Lee

Computer scientist and creator of Litecoin

Contemporary era

Dan Larimer

b. c. 1950

Software developer; creator of BitShares, Steem and EOS.IO

Contemporary era

Silvio Micali

b. October 13, 1954

Italian-American computer scientist

Contemporary era

Emin Gün Sirer

b. c. 1950

Turkish-American computer scientist (born 1950)

Contemporary era

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

b. May 13, 1974

Cypherpunk

Contemporary era

Bram Cohen

b. October 12, 1975

American programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol

Muneeb Ali

Pakistani-American computer scientist received Ph.D. Princeton University 2017

Steven Goldfeder

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer - Offchain Labs

Contemporary era

Ed Felten

b. March 25, 1963

Professor of computer science and public affairs

Contemporary era

Eli Ben-Sasson

b. 1970

Ph.D. Hebrew University 2001

Contemporary era

Yonatan Sompolinsky

b. 1984

Israeli computer scientist

Contemporary era

Ben Goertzel

b. December 8, 1966

Author and researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence

Contemporary era

Pavel Durov

b. October 10, 1984

Technology entrepreneur (born 1984)

Contemporary era

Nikolai Durov

b. November 21, 1980

Russian programmer and mathematician

Contemporary era

Alex Blania

b. 1993

German entrepreneur

Contemporary era

Amir Taaki

b. February 6, 1988

British-Iranian anarchist revolutionary, hacktivist, and programmer

Contemporary era

John Gilmore

b. 1955

Cypherpunk co-founder and internet activist

Contemporary era

Len Sassaman

April 9, 1980 – July 3, 2011

US computer systems engineer

Contemporary era

Ralph Merkle

b. February 2, 1952

American cryptographer and cryonicist (born 1952)

Stuart Haber

American cryptographer

Contemporary era

Dan Boneh

b. 1969

Israeli cryptographer

Contemporary era

Craig Steven Wright

b. October 23, 1970

Australian computer scientist and businessman

Contemporary era

Cameron Winklevoss

b. August 21, 1981

American businessman and rower

Contemporary era

Tyler Winklevoss

b. August 21, 1981

American businessman and rower

Contemporary era

Michael Saylor

b. February 4, 1965

American business executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist (born 1965)

Contemporary era

Marc Andreessen

b. July 9, 1971

American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer

Contemporary era

Kevin Rose

b. February 21, 1977

Digg founder and NFT project creator

Contemporary era

Gary Vaynerchuk

b. November 14, 1975

Belarusian-American entrepreneur and investor

Contemporary era

Andreas Antonopoulos

b. 1972

British-Greek Bitcoin advocate

Contemporary era

Ross Ulbricht

b. March 27, 1984

American founder and administrator of the illicit online marketplace the Silk Road

Contemporary era

Virgil Griffith

b. March 6, 1983

American computer programmer

Contemporary era

John McAfee

September 18, 1945 – June 23, 2021

British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)

Contemporary era

Glen Weyl

b. May 6, 1985

American economist

Sarah Meiklejohn

American computer scientist

Modern era

Alan Turing

June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954

Mathematician who founded computer science and broke Enigma

Modern era

Ada Lovelace

December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852

Mathematician who wrote the first computer program a century early

Contemporary era

Katherine Johnson

August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020

NASA mathematician whose orbital calculations carried astronauts home

Modern era

Kurt Godel

April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)

Modern era

John von Neumann

December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

Modern era

Claude Shannon

April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001

American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)

Early Modern era

Charles Babbage

December 26, 1791 – October 18, 1871

English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)

Modern era

Grace Hopper

December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

Contemporary era

Tim Berners-Lee

b. June 8, 1955

English computer scientist (born 1955)

Contemporary era

Steve Jobs

February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011

Co-founder of Apple who fused technology with design

Contemporary era

Steve Wozniak

b. August 11, 1950

American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.

Contemporary era

Bill Gates

b. October 28, 1955

Co-founder of Microsoft turned global health philanthropist

Contemporary era

Jeff Bezos

b. January 12, 1964

American business magnate (born 1964)

Contemporary era

Mark Zuckerberg

b. May 14, 1984

American Internet entrepreneur

Contemporary era

Larry Page

b. March 26, 1973

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)

Contemporary era

Sergey Brin

b. August 21, 1973

American billionaire businessman (born 1973)

Contemporary era

Jensen Huang

b. February 17, 1963

American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia

Contemporary era

Arfa Karim

February 2, 1995 – January 14, 2012

Pakistani computer scientist (1995–2012)

Rishi Kapoor

Ph.D. University of California, San Diego 2015

Modern era

George Boole

November 2, 1815 – December 8, 1864

English mathematician, philosopher and logician (1815–1864)

Modern era

Donald Knuth

b. January 10, 1938

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)