People from United States

Hedy Lamarr

Hollywood star who co-invented frequency hopping, a forerunner of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

1914 – 2000

Gwynne Shotwell

President and chief operating officer of SpaceX

Born 1963

Greg Brockman

Co-founder and president of OpenAI

Born 1987

Grace Hopper

US Navy rear admiral who wrote the first compiler and helped create COBOL

1906 – 1992

Gordon Moore

Intel co-founder who formulated Moore’s law

1929 – 2023

George E. Smith

Bell Labs physicist who co-invented the CCD image sensor

1930 – 2025

Gary Starkweather

Xerox engineer who invented the laser printer

1938 – 2019

Gary Kildall

Creator of CP/M, the first popular microcomputer operating system

1942 – 1994

Gabe Newell

Co-founder of Valve, creator of Half-Life and the Steam store

Born 1962

Frank Rosenblatt

Psychologist who invented the perceptron, an early learning neural network

1928 – 1971

Fernando J. Corbató

MIT pioneer of time-sharing and creator of the computer password

1926 – 2019

Fei-Fei Li

Stanford computer scientist who created ImageNet, the “godmother of AI”

Born 1976

Evan Williams

Co-founder of Blogger, Twitter and Medium

Born 1972

Esther Dyson

Technology investor and commentator who chaired ICANN

Born 1951

Eric Yuan

Chinese-American founder and CEO of Zoom

Born 1970

Eric S. Raymond

Author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative

Born 1957

Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and the world’s richest person

Born 1971

Edwin Howard Armstrong

Inventor of FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver

1890 – 1954

Edmund M. Clarke

Co-inventor of model checking, used to verify chips and software

1945 – 2020

Ed Roberts

Creator of the Altair 8800, which sparked the personal-computer revolution

1941 – 2010

Ed Catmull

Computer-graphics pioneer and co-founder of Pixar

Born 1945

E. Allen Emerson

Co-inventor of model checking and Turing Award winner

1954 – 2024

Dylan Field

Co-founder and CEO of Figma

Dustin Moskovitz

Facebook co-founder who started Asana and became a major philanthropist

Born 1984