People of Computing (No letters missing, but Q and X out of series)
The only person on this list I have personally met is James Gosling, but I worked with a niece of Gordon Moore and am one degree removed from David Huffman, Steve Jobs, Don Knuth, Richard Stallman, Paul Vixie, and Larry Wall
| Letter | Main Candidate | Secondary | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Amdahl | Agrawal | Gene (supercomputers) |
| B | Boole | Babbage | George (boolean) |
| C | Cerf | Vinton (Internet) | |
| D | Diffie | Dijkstra | Whitfield (DH exchange) |
| E | Easley | Annie | |
| F | Feigenbaum | Edward (fractal) | |
| G | Gosling | Goedel, Gates | James (Java) |
| H | Huffman | David (compression) | |
| I | Iverson | Ken (APL) | |
| J | Jobs | Steve (Apple) | |
| K | Knuth | Don | |
| L | Lovelace | Lamport, Lerdorf | Lady Ada |
| M | Moore | Mockapetris, Matsumoto | several (most famously Gordon) |
| N | Norman | Neumann | Donald (UI) |
| O | Overmars | Mark | |
| P | Postel | Jon (IANA, RFC) | |
| Q | Que | Xinyu (Winner of a 2011 ACM Award) | |
| R | Rumbaugh | James (OML) | |
| S | Stallman | Richard (GNU) | |
| T | Turing | Torvalds, Tanenbaum | Alan |
| U | Ullman | Jeffrey (compilers) | |
| V | Vixie | Paul (cron) | |
| W | Wall | Wirth, Weizenbaum | Larry (Perl) |
| X | Xavier | Professor, from the X Men series (no real relation to computing) | |
| Y | Yourdon | Edward (complexity theory) | |
| Z | Zuse | Konrad (early computing) |