1. Famous Personalities By
Arihan Bothra
VIII-A Roll-8

2. Richard Brodie
American computer programmer and author. He was the original creator of Microsoft Word. After leaving Microsoft, Brodie became a motivational speaker and authored two bestselling books. 
Born: November 10, 1959 (age 54), Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Books: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme.
Education: Harvard College, Harvard University

3. John D. Carmack
American game programmer and the co-founder of id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the id video games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels.
Born: August 20, 1970 (age 43), Roeland Park, Kansas, United States
Spouse: Katherine Anna Kang (m. 2000)
Education: Shawnee Mission East High School, University of Missouri–Kansas City
Awards: Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Video Gaming Technology and Applications

4. James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.
Born: May 19, 1955 (age 59), Calgary, Canada
Books: The Java Language Specification.
Education: Carnegie Mellon University(1983), University of Calgary (1977)

5. Tim Berners-Lee
Also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. 
Born: June 8, 1955 (age 58), London, United Kingdom
Books: Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor
Awards: MacArthur Fellowship, Marconi Prize, Charles Stark Draper Prize, Mountbatten Medal, President's Medal
Education: The Queen's College, Oxford(1973–1976), Emanuel School (1969–1973)

6. Larry Wall
Larry Wall is a computer programmer and author, most widely known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
Born: September 27, 1954 (age 59), Los Angeles, California, United States
Books: Programming Perl
Education: Seattle Pacific University(1976), University of California, Berkeley

7. Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman, often known by his initials, RMS, is a software freedom activist and computer programmer.
Born: March 16, 1953 (age 61),Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974–1975), Harvard University (1970–1974)
Awards: MacArthur Fellowship, Grace Murray Hopper Award, Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award

8. Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language.
Born: December 30, 1950 (age 63),Aarhus, Denmark
Education: University of Aarhus, Churchill College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Awards: Grace Murray Hopper Award

9. Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system.
Born: September 9, 1941, Bronxville, New York, United States
Died: October 12, 2011, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States
Education: Harvard University
Books: The C Programming Language.
Awards: Turing Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award

10. Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming.
Born: January 10, 1938 (age 76),Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Education: California Institute of Technology (1960–1963), more
Awards: Turing Award, Grace Murray Hopper Award, more

11. John von Neumann
John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics.
Born: December 28, 1903, Budapest, Hungary
Died: February 8, 1957, Washington, D.C., United States
Awards: Enrico Fermi Award, Bôcher Memorial Prize
Education: ETH Zurich, Eötvös Loránd University

12. John McCarthy
John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He coined the term "artificial intelligence", developed the Lisp programming language family, significantly influenced the design
Born: September 4, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: October 24, 2011, Stanford, California, United States
Education: Princeton University (1951),California Institute of Technology (1948)
Awards: Turing Award, Benjamin Franklin Medal, more

13. John Backus
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form, a widely used notation to define formal language syntax.
Born: December 3, 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: March 17, 2007, Ashland, Oregon, United States
Education: Columbia University (1949),The Hill School, University of Virginia
Awards: Turing Award, Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

14. Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, computer scientist and philosopher. 
Born: June 23, 1912, Maida Vale, London, United Kingdom
Died: June 7, 1954, Wilmslow, United Kingdom
Education: Princeton University (1936–1938), more

15. Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage, FRS was an English polymath. He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for originating the concept of a programmable computer.
Born: December 26, 1791, Teignmouth, United Kingdom
Died: October 18, 1871, Marylebone, United Kingdom
Awards: Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Education: University of Cambridge,Peterhouse, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge
Books: Ninth Bridgewater Treatise

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