(Computer History) Some important people in Computer and IT

Dennis Ritchie   ( 1941 Sept 09 -- 2011 Oct 12 )
His major contributions were development of Unix and C programming lang.

 
 Steve Jobs (1955 Feb 24 -- 2011 Oct 5)
 Founder of Apple company.


Ken Thompson (1943 Feb 4 -- )
Developer of B programming lang. , Unix and also known for utf-8


 Bill Gates (1955 Oct 28 -- )
William Henry Gates is founder of Microsoft and also a well known Billionaire.


Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (1955 Jun 8  -- )
Known as Inventor of WWW and first web browser.


Mark Zukerberg (1984 May 14 --)
Founder of Facebook


Linus torvalds (1969 Dec 28 -- )
Developer of Linux Kernel and Git.

Jack Ma (1964 Sept 10 -- )
Founder of Alibaba Company

Larry Page (1973 Mar 26 -- )
Founder of Google, Alphabet Inc. and Page Rank.

Jeff Bezos (1964 Jan 12 -- )
Founder of Amazon.com

Ray Tomlinson (1941 Apr 23 -- 2016 Mar 5)
Creator of Email.

Alan Turing (1912 Jun 23 -- 1954 Jun 7)
Known for Turing Machine, Turing Test and much more.

Charles Babbage (1791 Dec 26 -- 1871 Oct 18)
Known for Analytical Engine and also called Father of Computer.
 
Ada Lovelace (1815 Dec 10 -- 1852 Nov 27)
First Computer Programmer.

James Goshling / Dr. Java (1955 May 19 --)
Developer of Java

Kevin David Mitnick (1963 Aug 6 --)
Well Known hacker.

Edward Snowden (1983 Jun 21 -- )
Well Known Hacker.