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# 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 )
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- **[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
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- **[Eric S. Raymond ](esr.md )**: proponent of [open source ](open_source.md ), co-founder of [OSI ](osi.md ) and tech writer
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- **[Ken Thompson ](ken_thompson.md )**: co-creator of [Unix ](unix.md ), [C ](c.md ) and [Go ](go.md )
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- **[Larry Wall ](larry_wall.md )**: creator of [Perl ](perl.md ) language, linguist
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- **[Linus Torvalds ](linus_torvalds.md )**: Finnish programmer who created [Linux ](linux.md ) and [git ](git.md )
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- **[Luke Smith ](luke_smith )**: [suckless ](suckless.md ) vlogger/celebrity
- **[Noam Chomsky ](noam_chomsky.md )**: linguist notable in theoretical [compsci ](computer_science.md ), anarchist
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- **[Richard Stallman ](rmd.md )**: inventor of [free software ](free_software.md ) and [copyleft ](copyleft.md ), founder of [GNU ](gnu.md ), also created [emacs ](emacs.md )
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- **[Steve Jobs ](steve_jobs.md )**: founder and CEO of [Apple ](apple.md )
- **[Terry Davis ](terry_davis )**: schizophrenic creator of [Temple OS ](temple_os.md ), Internet [meme ](meme.md )
