People from United States

Alexandr Wang

Founder of Scale AI and Meta’s chief AI officer

Alexander Graham Bell

Scottish-born inventor credited with the first practical telephone

1847 – 1922

Adam Osborne

Pioneer of the portable computer with the Osborne 1

1939 – 2003

Adam Cheyer

Co-founder of Siri and Viv Labs

Aaron Swartz

Programmer and activist who helped create RSS, Reddit and Creative Commons

1986 – 2013

Marissa Mayer

Google’s first female engineer and CEO of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017

Born 1975

Margo Seltzer

Computer scientist who co-created Berkeley DB

Marc Benioff

Founder of Salesforce, pioneer of cloud software, and owner of Time magazine

Born 1964

Marc Andreessen

Co-creator of the Mosaic browser, co-founder of Netscape and venture capitalist

Born 1971

Manuel Blum

Venezuelan-born computer scientist who co-invented CAPTCHA

Born 1938

Lisa Su

CEO of AMD who led one of the great turnarounds in the chip industry

Born 1969

Lee Felsenstein

Engineer who designed the Osborne 1 and moderated the Homebrew Computer Club

Born 1945

Lee de Forest

Inventor of the Audion triode vacuum tube

1873 – 1961

Larry Tesler

Computer scientist who invented cut, copy and paste

1945 – 2020

Larry Sanger

Philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia and named it

Born 1968

Larry Ellison

Co-founder of Oracle and one of the world’s richest people

Born 1944

Kevin Scott

Microsoft’s chief technology officer who brokered its OpenAI partnership

Kevin Rose

Founder of Digg and early tech-TV and podcast personality

Born 1977

Kevin Kelly

Founding executive editor of Wired magazine

Born 1952

Ken Olsen

Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, pioneer of the minicomputer

1926 – 2011

Katherine Johnson

NASA mathematician whose calculations sent astronauts into orbit and to the Moon

1918 – 2020

Jyoti Bansal

Founder of AppDynamics and Harness

Judea Pearl

AI pioneer who developed Bayesian networks and the science of cause and effect

Born 1936

Joy Buolamwini

Computer scientist who exposed bias in facial recognition and founded the Algorithmic Justice League