Programmer Biographies

Contemporary era

Hal Finney

May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014

American software developer (1956-2014)

Contemporary era

Vitalik Buterin

b. January 31, 1994

Russian-Canadian computer scientist

Contemporary era

Jed McCaleb

b. 1975

American tech entrepreneur and philanthropist

Contemporary era

David Schwartz

b. November 16, 1969

Programmer

Contemporary era

Bram Cohen

b. October 12, 1975

American programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol

Contemporary era

Sam Altman

b. April 22, 1985

American venture capitalist

Contemporary era

Pieter Wuille

b. September 10, 1984

Bitcoin Core developer

Gregory Maxwell

Software developer

Jameson Lopp

Bitcoin engineer

Contemporary era

Amir Taaki

b. February 6, 1988

British-Iranian anarchist revolutionary, hacktivist, and programmer

Contemporary era

Eric Hughes

b. c. 1953

Cypherpunk movement co-founder

Contemporary era

John Gilmore

b. 1955

Cypherpunk co-founder and internet activist

Contemporary era

Phil Zimmermann

b. February 12, 1954

Creator of Pretty Good Privacy

Contemporary era

Mark Karpelès

b. June 1, 1985

Former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox

Contemporary era

Jack Dorsey

b. November 19, 1976

American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter

Contemporary era

Virgil Griffith

b. March 6, 1983

American computer programmer

Alexey Pertsev

Russian programmer, one of the developers of the Tornado Cash cryptomixer

Contemporary era

John McAfee

September 18, 1945 – June 23, 2021

British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)

Modern era

Ada Lovelace

December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852

Mathematician who wrote the first computer program a century early

Contemporary era

Tim Berners-Lee

b. June 8, 1955

English computer scientist (born 1955)

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

Elon Musk

b. June 28, 1971

American businessman (born 1971)

Contemporary era

Mark Zuckerberg

b. May 14, 1984

American Internet entrepreneur

Modern era

Dennis Ritchie

September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)

Modern era

Dorothy Vaughan

September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008

African-American mathematician