Computer Science: Famous people

• Ronald L. Rivest
  Research in cryptography, computer security and algorithms. Author of RC5, RC4, MD5, ...
  http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/
  
• Dennis M. Ritchie
  http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/
  
• Ken Thompson
  http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/
  
• Brian Kernighan
  http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/
  
• Niklaus Wirth
  Inventor of Pascal (I meet him when he was in Prague, November 1999).
  http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/
  
• Linus Torvalds
  Author of the most popular UNIX kernel :-)
  http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~torvalds/
  
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  Author of Minix and Amoeba.
  http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/
  
• Eric S. Raymond
  OpenSource programmer, Linux advocate. Author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
  
• Steve Jobs
  He founded Apple, invited Apple II, ...
  http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html
  
• Richard M. Stallman
  He founded the GNU project in 1984 and he is the author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and other Open-Source Software.
  http://www.stallman.org/