# Tech People
This is a list of notable people in technology.
- **[Bill Gates](bill_gates.md)**: founder and CEO of [Micro$oft ](microsoft.md )
- **[Dennis Ritchie](dennis_ritchie)**: creator of [C ](c.md ) language and co-creator of [Unix ](unix.md )
- **[Donald Knuth](knuth.md)**: computer scientist, Turing-award winner, author of the famous [Art of Computer Programming ](taocp.md ) books and the [TeX ](tex.md ) typesetting system
- **[drummyfish](drummyfish.md)**: founder of [LRS ](lrs.md ) and this wiki
- **[Eric S. Raymond](esr.md)**: proponent of [open source ](open_source.md ), co-founder of [OSI ](osi.md ) and tech writer
- **[John Carmack](john_carmack.md)**: legendary game ([Doom](doom.md), [Quake ](quake.md ), ...) and [graphics ](graphics.md ) developer
- **[Ken Thompson](ken_thompson.md)**: co-creator of [Unix ](unix.md ), [C ](c.md ) and [Go ](go.md )
- **[Larry Wall](larry_wall.md)**: creator of [Perl ](perl.md ) language, linguist
- **[Linus Torvalds](linus_torvalds.md)**: Finnish programmer who created [Linux ](linux.md ) and [git ](git.md )
- **[Luke Smith](luke_smith)**: [suckless ](suckless.md ) vlogger/celebrity
- **[Mental Outlaw](mental_outlaw.md)**: [suckless ](suckless.md ) vlogger/celebrity
- **[Noam Chomsky](noam_chomsky.md)**: linguist notable in theoretical [compsci ](computer_science.md ), anarchist
- **[Richard Stallman](rmd.md)**: inventor of [free software ](free_software.md ) and [copyleft ](copyleft.md ), founder of [GNU ](gnu.md ) and [FSF ](fsf.md ), also created [emacs ](emacs.md )
- **[Steve Jobs](steve_jobs.md)**: founder and CEO of [Apple ](apple.md )
- **[Ted Kaczynski](ted_kaczynski.md)**: AKA the Unabomber, mathematician, primitivist and murderer who pointed out the dangers of technology
- **[Terry Davis](terry_davis.md)**: schizophrenic genius creator of [Temple OS ](temple_os.md ), became a tech [meme ](meme.md )
- **[Uriel](uriel.md)**: deceased member of the [suckless ](suckless.md ) community, philosophical advisor
