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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

al-Jazari, Engineers
al-Jazari
Engineers
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Liu Gang
Chinese pro-democracy activist
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
Barbara Liskov, Computer scientists
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Eric S. Raymond, Computer scientists
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer and advocate
Robert Noyce, Physicists
Robert Noyce
American physicist
Satoru Iwata, Business & industry
Satoru Iwata
Japanese programmer and businessman
Jensen Huang, Business & industry
Jensen Huang
Taiwanese-American engineer
Subhash Kak, Mathematicians
Subhash Kak
Indian-American computer scientist
Alan Kay, Computer scientists
Alan Kay
American computer scientist
Manal al-Sharif, Activists & reformers
Manal al-Sharif
Saudi women's rights activist
Sal Khan, Business & industry
Sal Khan
American educator
Marissa Mayer, Computer scientists
Marissa Mayer
American technology executive
Jawed Karim, Computer scientists
Jawed Karim
German-American entrepreneur
Katie Bouman, Computer scientists
Katie Bouman
American computer scientist
Robert Metcalfe, Computer scientists
Robert Metcalfe
American engineer