Top Ten Computer Programmers

The Top Ten
1 Ada Lovelace Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron) (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and published the first algorithm intended to be carried out... read more

One which a sibling got name after, from then programming became important and operating systems advancing gain in fame. This is a very good person to start from if can one might imagine. Despite demise this profession is real and educational for all, so in a way it is still great!

Ada Lovelace the world's first programmer.

2 Bill Gates William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual... read more

Bill Gates - Microsoft and Richest Man in the World decades on end.

3 Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer.

Mark Zuckerberg - creator of Mass Media success program or website Facebook.

4 Ken Thompson

Ken Thomson - a fine leading programmer in the field known most for Unix.

5 Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak - the big programmer for the Apple industry key one for Steve Jobs himself.

6 John Carmack

John Carmack - remember the Wolfenstein 3D Catacombs, an amazingly intelligent programmer.

7 Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system - might not be as good as Windows however it still operates even when not in need of one.

8 Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman is known for GNU in the computer field.

9 James Gosling

James Gosling is Canadian and known for one of the top two programming languages of all time - Java.

10 Grace Hopper
The Contenders
11 Charles Babbage Charles Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage, along with Ada Lovelace, is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer.
12 Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and business magnate. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and a co-founder of Apple Inc., chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as... read more

Co-Founder of the Apple corporation - which has much in assets. A true pioneer and if there is a Macintosh around the name may be given respect for things as those.

13 Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth - wrote the 'Art of Computer Programming' book.

14 Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
15 Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing was a pioneering English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist.
16 Brian Kernighan

Coder with C one of the flavors of main programming languages wide use of choice. Is somewhat with Unix system too.

At Bell Laboratories knows things, and is proficient in Unix...According to this Internet.

17 Jack Dorsey

PHP guru and headmaster, cool operator has nice touch when comes to the gadget and stuff.

18 Paul Allen

Proficient in BASIC language as well as implementation of QDOS operating system. A visible range best programmer. Awesome stuff, BASIC is good on the shelves too and DOS can be fun sometimes!

Good person with the forerunners of technology especially in the white collar programming world.

Co-Founder of Microsoft, very good with gadgets and technology.

19 Tim Cook

New owner of Apple Corporation of seeming 2018.

20 Ken Silverman
21 Erich Gamma
22 Martin Fowler
23 Terry A. Davis

Created his own programming language and created an entire operating system using it alone and with no help.

24 Dennis Ritchie
25 Mark Dean
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