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56 notable computer scientists on file — 20 still here, 36 not.
still with us
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Bill Gates
aliveAmerican businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
born 1955
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Mark Zuckerberg
aliveAmerican Internet entrepreneur
born 1984
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Jeff Bezos
aliveAmerican business magnate (born 1964)
born 1964
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Pavel Durov
alivetechnology entrepreneur (born 1984)
born 1984
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Tim Cook
aliveAmerican business executive, former Apple executive chairman
born 1960
Larry Ellison
aliveAmerican internet entrepreneur and businessman (born 1944)
born 1944
Geoffrey Hinton
aliveBritish-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
born 1947
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Sundar Pichai
aliveIndian-American business executive, CEO of Google LLC & Alphabet Inc.
born 1972
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Chelsea Manning
aliveAmerican activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
born 1987
Michael Dell
aliveAmerican businessman and CEO (born 1965)
born 1965
Peter Thiel
aliveGerman-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
born 1967
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Alexey Pajitnov
aliveRussian video game designer (born 1955)
born 1955
Eduardo Saverin
aliveBrazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
born 1982
Sudha Murthy
aliveIndian writer, philanthropist, author, motivator
born 1950
Ross Ulbricht
aliveAmerican founder and administrator of the illicit online marketplace the Silk Road
born 1984
Curtis Yarvin
aliveAmerican far-right political theorist and computer scientist
born 1973
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Ilya Sutskever
aliveCanadian-Israeli AI researcher
born 1986
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Travis Kalanick
aliveAmerican entrepreneur
born 1976
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Steve Huffman
aliveAmerican businessman
born 1983
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Alexandr Wang
alivefounder CEO at Scale AI
born 1997
gone (30 of 36)
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Alan Turing
deadEnglish computer scientist
1912 – 1954
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Paul Allen
deadAmerican businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft
1953 – 2018
Niklaus Wirth
deadSwiss computer scientist
1934 – 2024
Tony Hoare
deadBritish computer scientist
1934 – 2026
Lynn Conway
deadAmerican computer scientist and electrical engineer
1938 – 2024
Michael O. Rabin
deadIsraeli computer scientist
1931 – 2026
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Richard E. Stearns
deadAmerican computer scientist
1936 – 2026
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E. Allen Emerson
deadAmerican computer scientist
1954 – 2024
Gordon Bell
deadAmerican computer engineer
1934 – 2024
Steve Shirley
deadBritish businesswoman and philanthropist
1933 – 2025
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Bill Atkinson
deadAmerican computer engineer, programmer, and photographer
1951 – 2025
Robert H. Dennard
deadAmerican engineer and inventor
1932 – 2024
Thomas E. Kurtz
deadAmerican computer scientist and educator
1928 – 2024
Arto Salomaa
deadFinnish mathematician and computer scientist; academian of science (Academy of Finland), professor emeritus of mathematics (University of Turku)
1934 – 2025
Michael J. Flynn
deadAmerican computer scientist
1934 – 2025
Mary Tsingou
deadAmerican physicist and mathematician
1928 – 2026
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Trygve Reenskaug
deadNorwegian computer scientist
1930 – 2024
Jack Dennis
deadAmerican computer scientist
1931 – 2026
John Walker
deadComputer programmer and co-founder of Autodesk
1949 – 2024
David J. Farber
deadAmerican computer scientist
1934 – 2026
Dimitri Bertsekas
deadGreek computer scientist and mathematician
1942 – 2026
Carl Lundström
deadSwedish businessman and activist
1960 – 2025
Jean-Raymond Abrial
deadFrench computer scientist
1938 – 2025
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David L. Mills
deadAmerican academic computer engineer
1938 – 2024
Lubomyr Romankiw
deadIBM Fellow and researcher
1931 – 2024
David Luenberger
deadAmerican mathematical scientist
1937 – 2026
Jozef Gruska
deadSlovak computer science pioneer, expert in quantum computing
1933 – 2025
Gerhard Hund
deadGerman mathematician, computer scientist and chess player
1932 – 2024
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Imants Freibergs
deadLatvian computer scientist
1934 – 2026
Vladimir Voevodin
deadRussian computer scientist
1962 – 2026