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Discover the people who shaped the world — and the extraordinary stories that inspire us to shape what comes next.

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Notable people

James Gosling, Inventors
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
Michael Dell, Business & industry
Michael Dell
American entrepreneur
Joshua Lederberg, Biologists
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
Eric Schmidt, Business & industry
Eric Schmidt
American business executive
Kevin Mitnick, Computer scientists
Kevin Mitnick
American hacker
Guido van Rossum, Computer scientists
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer
John Backus, Mathematicians
John Backus
American computer scientist
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Engineers
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Engineers
Margaret Hamilton, Computer scientists
Margaret Hamilton
American computer scientist
Jack Dorsey, Business & industry
Jack Dorsey
American technology entrepreneur
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Alonzo Church
American mathematician and logician
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Liu Gang
Chinese pro-democracy activist
al-Jazari, Engineers
al-Jazari
Engineers
Hans Kelsen, Jurists & legal scholars
Hans Kelsen
Jurists & legal scholars
Raymond Kurzweil, Inventors
Raymond Kurzweil
American inventor and futurist
John Marshall, Jurists & legal scholars
John Marshall
Jurists & legal scholars
Peter Thiel, Business & industry
Peter Thiel
German-American entrepreneur
Hilary Putnam, Mathematicians
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
Vannevar Bush, Computer scientists
Vannevar Bush
American engineer
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer scientists
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
Hideo Kojima, Computer scientists
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer
Larry Wall, Computer scientists
Larry Wall
American programmer
Eric S. Raymond, Computer scientists
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer and advocate
Barbara Liskov, Computer scientists
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist