---
author: marco
date: "2013-11-03T18:02:39Z"
title: People of Computing (No letters missing, but Q and X out of series)
categories: ["Alphabet Lists"]
series: ["alphalist"]
summary: "A list of people famous only to computer geeks (like me)"
---

The only person on this list I have personally met is James Gosling, but I worked with a niece of Gordon Moore and am one degree removed from David Huffman, Steve Jobs, Don Knuth, Richard Stallman, Paul Vixie, and Larry Wall

| **Letter** | **Main Candidate** | **Secondary** | **Comments** |
|---|---|---|---|
| **A** | Amdahl | Agrawal | Gene (supercomputers) |
| **B** | Boole | Babbage | George (boolean) |
| **C** | Cerf |  | Vinton (Internet) |
| **D** | Diffie | Dijkstra | Whitfield (DH exchange) |
| **E** | Easley |  | [Annie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Easley) |
| **F** | Feigenbaum |  | Edward (fractal) |
| **G** | Gosling | Goedel, Gates | James (Java) |
| **H** | Huffman |  | David (compression) |
| **I** | Iverson |  | Ken (APL) |
| **J** | Jobs |  | Steve (Apple) |
| **K** | Knuth |  | Don |
| **L** | Lovelace | Lamport, Lerdorf | Lady Ada |
| **M** | Moore | Mockapetris, Matsumoto | several (most famously Gordon) |
| **N** | Norman | Neumann | Donald (UI) |
| **O** | Overmars |  | Mark |
| **P** | Postel |  | Jon (IANA, RFC) |
| **Q** | Que |  | Xinyu (Winner of a 2011 ACM Award) |
| **R** | Rumbaugh |  | James (OML) |
| **S** | Stallman |  | Richard (GNU) |
| **T** | Turing | Torvalds, Tanenbaum | Alan |
| **U** | Ullman |  | Jeffrey (compilers) |
| **V** | Vixie |  | Paul (cron) |
| **W** | Wall | Wirth, Weizenbaum | Larry (Perl) |
| **X** | Xavier |  | Professor, from the X Men series (no real relation to computing) |
| **Y** | Yourdon |  | Edward (complexity theory) |
| **Z** | Zuse |  | Konrad (early computing) |