People from United Kingdom

Charles K. Kao

“Godfather of broadband” who showed glass fibres could carry light over long distances

1933 – 2018

Charles Babbage

Victorian mathematician who designed the first programmable mechanical computer

1791 – 1871

Jony Ive

British designer of the iMac, iPod and iPhone and founder of LoveFrom

Born 1967

John Logie Baird

Scottish inventor who gave the first public demonstration of television

1888 – 1946

Tommy Flowers

Post Office engineer who built Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer

1905 – 1998

Mustafa Suleyman

DeepMind co-founder who now leads Microsoft AI

Mike Lynch

Founder of Autonomy, once called Britain’s Bill Gates

1965 – 2024

Michael Moritz

Welsh-born Sequoia investor who backed Google, Yahoo and PayPal

Born 1954

Hermann Hauser

Austrian-born entrepreneur who co-founded Acorn Computers and helped create ARM

Born 1948

Eben Upton

Creator of the Raspberry Pi single-board computer

Born 1978

Donald Davies

British scientist who coined “packet switching” and built an early packet network

1924 – 2000

David Silver

British researcher who led AlphaGo and AlphaZero

Alan Sugar

Founder of Amstrad and star of the UK version of The Apprentice

Born 1947

Ada Lovelace

Mathematician often regarded as the first computer programmer

1815 – 1852