People from United States
326 profiles
Science
Terry Winograd
Stanford professor who built SHRDLU and advised Google’s founders
Born 1946
Technology
Ted Nelson
Visionary who coined the words “hypertext” and “hypermedia”
Born 1937
Technology
Susan Wojcicki
Google’s 16th employee and CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023
1968 – 2024
Technology
Susan Kare
Designer who created the original Macintosh icons and fonts
Born 1954
Technology
Stewart Brand
Creator of the Whole Earth Catalog and early prophet of personal computing
Born 1938
Technology
Steve Sinofsky
Former head of Microsoft Office and Windows
Born 1965
Technology
Steve Jobs
Co-founder of Apple who launched the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone
1955 – 2011
Technology
Steve Crocker
Internet pioneer who wrote the first Request for Comments
Born 1944
Sports
Steve Ballmer
Former Microsoft CEO and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
Born 1956
Science
Stephen Wolfram
Creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha
Born 1959
Science
Silvio Micali
Italian-American cryptographer and founder of the Algorand blockchain
Born 1954
Science
Shafi Goldwasser
Cryptographer who co-invented zero-knowledge proofs
Born 1958
Technology
Scott McNealy
Co-founder and long-time CEO of Sun Microsystems
Born 1954
Sanjay Ghemawat
Google engineer who co-designed MapReduce, Bigtable and the Google File System
Technology
Safra Catz
Israeli-American executive who led Oracle as CEO until 2025
Born 1961
Technology
Ryan Roslansky
LinkedIn CEO who also leads Microsoft Office
Born 1977
Technology
Ryan Dahl
Creator of Node.js and Deno
Born 1981
Technology
Ruth Porat
President and chief investment officer of Alphabet and former Google CFO
Technology
Ronald Wayne
Third co-founder of Apple who sold his stake after 12 days
Born 1934
Science
Ron Rivest
MIT cryptographer and the “R” in the RSA encryption system
Born 1947
Science
Rodney Brooks
Australian roboticist who co-founded iRobot, maker of the Roomba
Born 1954
Technology
Robert Noyce
Co-inventor of the integrated circuit and co-founder of Intel, the “Mayor of Silicon Valley”
1927 – 1990
Technology
Richard Garriott
Creator of the Ultima games and private astronaut
Born 1961
Science
Richard E. Stearns
Co-founder of computational complexity theory with Juris Hartmanis
1936 – 2026