Tech People

This is a list of notable people in technology.

Bill Gates: founder and CEO of Micro$oft
Dennis Ritchie: creator of C language and co-creator of Unix
Donald Knuth: computer scientist, Turing-award winner, author of the famous Art of Computer Programming books and the TeX typesetting system
Eric S. Raymond: proponent of open source, co-founder of OSI and tech writer
John Carmack: legendary game (Doom, Quake, ...) and graphics developer
Ken Thompson: co-creator of Unix, C and Go
Larry Wall: creator of Perl language, linguist
Linus Torvalds: Finnish programmer who created Linux and git
Luke Smith: suckless vlogger/celebrity
Mental Outlaw: suckless vlogger/celebrity
Noam Chomsky: linguist notable in theoretical compsci, anarchist
Richard Stallman: inventor of free software and copyleft, founder of GNU, also created emacs
Steve Jobs: founder and CEO of Apple
Terry Davis: schizophrenic genius creator of Temple OS, became a tech meme
Uriel: deceased member of the suckless community, philosophical advisor