People from United States
326 profiles
Technology
Mitch Kapor
Founder of Lotus and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Born 1950
Science
Michael Stonebraker
Database researcher behind Ingres and Postgres
Born 1943
Technology
Michael Dell
Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies who started selling PCs from his college dorm
Born 1965
Technology
Max Levchin
Ukrainian-born PayPal co-founder and CEO of Affirm
Born 1975
Technology
Martin Cooper
Motorola engineer who made the first handheld mobile phone call
Born 1928
Technology
Jay Miner
Chip designer known as the father of the Amiga
1932 – 1994
Technology
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born co-founder of WhatsApp
Born 1976
Technology
Jack Tramiel
Holocaust survivor who founded Commodore and launched the Commodore 64
1928 – 2012
Science
Jack Dongarra
Creator of the numerical libraries and benchmarks behind supercomputing
Born 1950
Technology
Herman Hollerith
Inventor of the punched-card tabulating machine and founder of a company that became IBM
1860 – 1929
Science
Herbert A. Simon
Nobel-winning economist and AI pioneer who studied how people make decisions
1916 – 2001
Technology
Ginni Rometty
First woman to lead IBM
Born 1957
Science
Fred Brooks
IBM System/360 manager and author of The Mythical Man-Month
1931 – 2022
Science
Frances Allen
IBM compiler pioneer and the first woman to win the Turing Award
1932 – 2020
Technology
Evan Spiegel
Co-founder and CEO of Snap, maker of Snapchat
Born 1990
Eric Bina
Programmer who co-wrote the Mosaic browser and co-founded Netscape
Born 1964
Science
Edward Feigenbaum
Stanford scientist known as the father of expert systems
Born 1936
Technology
Dara Khosrowshahi
Iranian-American CEO of Uber who led it to profitability
Born 1969
Science
Daphne Koller
Israeli-American computer scientist who co-founded Coursera and leads insitro
Born 1968
Daniela Amodei
Co-founder and president of Anthropic
Science
Dana Scott
Logician who gave programming languages a mathematical meaning
Born 1932
Science
Cynthia Breazeal
MIT pioneer of social robots who built Kismet and Jibo
Born 1967
Technology
Craig Newmark
Founder of Craigslist and philanthropist supporting journalism
Born 1952
Science
Cleve Moler
Mathematician who created MATLAB and co-founded MathWorks
1939 – 2026