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type: Index
title: The People Who Built Computer Science
description: Sourced biographies of the key figures in computer science.
resource: "https://computerscience.co.uk/people/"
timestamp: 2026-07-10T09:20:46.904Z
---

# The People Who Built Computer Science

- [Ada Lovelace](/people/ada-lovelace/index.md): The first published computer program; Notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine
- [Alan Turing](/people/alan-turing/index.md): The Turing machine; The Turing test; Codebreaking at Bletchley Park
- [Charles Babbage](/people/charles-babbage/index.md): The Difference Engine; The Analytical Engine
- [Claude Shannon](/people/claude-shannon/index.md): Information theory; Linking Boolean logic to circuits
- [Dennis Ritchie](/people/dennis-ritchie/index.md): The C programming language; Co-creating the Unix operating system
- [Donald Knuth](/people/donald-knuth/index.md): The Art of Computer Programming; The TeX typesetting system
- [Edsger Dijkstra](/people/edsger-dijkstra/index.md): Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm; Structured programming
- [Grace Hopper](/people/grace-hopper/index.md): The first compiler; Work that led to COBOL
- [Guido van Rossum](/people/guido-van-rossum/index.md): Creating the Python programming language
- [John von Neumann](/people/john-von-neumann/index.md): The stored-program computer architecture; Game theory; Foundational work across mathematics
- [Linus Torvalds](/people/linus-torvalds/index.md): The Linux kernel; The Git version control system
- [Tim Berners-Lee](/people/tim-berners-lee/index.md): The World Wide Web; HTTP, HTML and the URL
- [Vint Cerf](/people/vint-cerf/index.md): Co-designing the TCP/IP protocols; A father of the internet

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