Operating Systems — people field

29 persons in the operating systems field.

Name	Life	Status	Field	Known for
Andreas Kling	—	Alive	operating systems	SerenityOS
Bruce Horn	—	Alive	operating systems	—
Dan Dodge	—	Alive	operating systems	QNX
Jim Hall	—	Alive	operating systems	FreeDOS
Matthew Dillon	—	Alive	operating systems	DragonFly BSD
Paul Laughton	—	Alive	operating systems	Apple DOS
Ville Turjanmaa	—	Alive	operating systems	MenuetOS
minexew	—	Alive	operating systems	Shrine
Fernando CorbatóCorby	1926–2019	Dead	operating systems	CTSS Multics
Fred Brooks	1931–2022	Dead	operating systems	No Silver Bullet
Douglas McIlroyDoug McIlroy	1932–	Alive	operating systems	—
Dave Cutler	1942–	Alive	operating systems	Windows NT / Windows
Gary Kildall	1942–1994	Dead	operating systems	Digital Research CP/M
Butler Lampson	1943–	Alive	operating systems	Hints for Computer System Design
Ken Thompson	1943–	Alive	operating systems	B Research Unix The UNIX Time-Sharing System Reflections on Trusting Trust Plan 9 from Bell Labs Go
Andrew S. Tanenbaum	1944–	Alive	operating systems	MINIX
Jean-Louis Gassée	1944–	Alive	operating systems	BeOS
Richard GreenblattRicky Greenblatt	1944–	Alive	operating systems	ITS Lisp Machines, Inc.
Bill Atkinson	1951–2025	Dead	operating systems	HyperTalk
Andy Hertzfeld	1953–	Alive	operating systems	—
Richard Stallmanrms	1953–	Alive	operating systems	The GNU Manifesto
Bill JoyVinod Khosla's partner in Sun	1954–	Alive	operating systems	C shell Sun Microsystems
Bill Gates	1955–	Alive	operating systems	Microsoft
Steve Jobs	1955–2011	Dead	operating systems	Apple Computer NeXT
Rob Pike	1956–	Alive	operating systems	Plan 9 from Bell Labs Go
Tim Paterson	1956–	Alive	operating systems	MS-DOS
Theo de Raadt	1967–	Alive	operating systems	OpenBSD
Linus Torvalds	1969–	Alive	operating systems	Linux
Terry A. Davis	1969–2018	Dead	operating systems	HolyC TempleOS