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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

Ward Cunningham, Computer scientists
Ward Cunningham
American programmer
Cesare Beccaria, Jurists & legal scholars
Cesare Beccaria
Jurists & legal scholars
Satya Nadella, Business & industry
Satya Nadella
Indian-American business executive
Lawrence Lessig, Jurists & legal scholars
Lawrence Lessig
American legal scholar
Chien-Shiung Wu, Physicists
Chien-Shiung Wu
Physicists
Gabe Newell, Business & industry
Gabe Newell
American programmer and businessman
Ken Thompson, Computer scientists
Ken Thompson
American computer scientist
Niklaus Wirth, Computer scientists
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist
Herman Hollerith, Inventors
Herman Hollerith
American inventor and statistician
Demis Hassabis, Computer scientists
Demis Hassabis
British AI researcher
Lila Tretikov, Computer scientists
Lila Tretikov
Russian-American software engineer
James Gosling, Inventors
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
John Hopfield, Physicists
John Hopfield
American physicist
Vint Cerf, Computer scientists
Vint Cerf
American 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
Guido van Rossum, Computer scientists
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer
Kevin Mitnick, Computer scientists
Kevin Mitnick
American hacker
Jack Dorsey, Business & industry
Jack Dorsey
American technology entrepreneur
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Engineers
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Engineers
John Backus, Mathematicians
John Backus
American computer scientist
Margaret Hamilton, Computer scientists
Margaret Hamilton
American computer scientist
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Alonzo Church
American mathematician and logician