Great Names in Computer Science

I gave up any attempt to sort this list by “importance” (too risk) or “category” (frontiers are not always well defined). Instead, I have simply chosen alphabetical order. Chronological order would probably have been better, had I been able to find everybody's birth date, but such is not the case. Furthermore, please consider this list as permanently incomplete and permanently inaccurate. You are welcome to send me corrections to this list. You are also welcome to suggest additions. I'll consider for addition anyone who seems to have made a significant contribution to computer science (in any domain). More probably, I'll just ignore the suggestion, because this list isn't supposed to make any kind of sense, anyway. Moreover, I will certainly not consider any suggestions for removing people from the list.