Apple

Tony Fadell

“Father of the iPod” and co-creator of the iPhone, founder of Nest

Born 1969

Tim Cook

Apple executive chairman and its CEO from 2011 to 2026

Born 1960

Steve Wozniak

Engineer who designed the Apple I and Apple II and co-founded Apple

Born 1950

Chris Lattner

Creator of LLVM, Clang and the Swift programming language

Jony Ive

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

Born 1967

Bill Atkinson

Apple programmer who created MacPaint, QuickDraw and HyperCard

1951 – 2025

Adam Cheyer

Co-founder of Siri and Viv Labs

Larry Tesler

Computer scientist who invented cut, copy and paste

1945 – 2020

Jef Raskin

Apple interface expert who started the Macintosh project

1943 – 2005

Susan Kare

Designer who created the original Macintosh icons and fonts

Born 1954

Steve Jobs

Co-founder of Apple who launched the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone

1955 – 2011

Ronald Wayne

Third co-founder of Apple who sold his stake after 12 days

Born 1934

Andy Hertzfeld

Software wizard of the original Macintosh team

Born 1953