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◈ALB Atlas

People of the 1950s

Every person in the Atlas that were born in the 1950s — 30 entries.

Decade1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s
Familyprogramming languages 140operating systems 29theory 26computing 17networking 10databases 7Hardware 6Artificial intelligence 2Business 2Search 2ai 2web 2Computer graphics 1Cryptography 1
StatusAliveMaintenanceDormantDeadLostSuperseded
NameLifeStatusFieldKnown for
Bertrand Meyer1950–Aliveprogramming languagesEiffel
Bjarne Stroustrup1950–Aliveprogramming languagesC++
Joe Armstrong1950–2019Deadprogramming languagesErlang
Steve WozniakWoz1950–AlivecomputingApple Computer Apple I Apple II
Bill Atkinson1951–2025Deadoperating systemsHyperTalk
Dan Bricklin1951–Alivecomputing—
Andy Hertzfeld1953–Aliveoperating systems—
Paul Allen1953–2018DeadBusinessMicrosoft
Phil Moorby1953–2022Deadprogramming languagesVerilog
Richard Stallmanrms1953–Aliveoperating systemsThe GNU Manifesto
Roger Hui1953–2021Deadprogramming languagesJ
Bill JoyVinod Khosla's partner in Sun1954–Aliveoperating systemsC shell Sun Microsystems
Guy L. Steele Jr.1954–Aliveprogramming languagesScheme Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative Fortress
John Ousterhout1954–Aliveprogramming languagesTcl
Larry Wall1954–Aliveprogramming languagesPerl Raku
Ross Ihaka1954–Aliveprogramming languagesR
Bill Gates1955–Aliveoperating systemsMicrosoft
James Gosling1955–Aliveprogramming languagesJava
Steve Jobs1955–2011Deadoperating systemsApple Computer NeXT
Tim Berners-Lee1955–AlivewebInformation Management: A Proposal
Guido van Rossum1956–Aliveprogramming languagesPython
Mitchel ResnickMitch Resnick1956–Aliveprogramming languagesScratch
Rob Pike1956–Aliveoperating systemsPlan 9 from Bell Labs Go
Tim Paterson1956–Aliveoperating systemsMS-DOS
Carl Sassenrath1957–Aliveprogramming languagesAmigaOS REBOL
Martin Odersky1958–Aliveprogramming languagesScala
Brian Fox1959–Aliveprogramming languagesBash
Robert Gentleman1959–Aliveprogramming languagesR
Stephen Wolfram1959–Aliveprogramming languagesWolfram Language
Walter Bright1959–Aliveprogramming languagesD