| Adam Lindsay | — | Alive | programming languages | LOLCODE |
| Alan Cooper | — | Alive | programming languages | Visual Basic |
| Alex Medvednikov | — | Alive | programming languages | V |
| Andreas Kling | — | Alive | operating systems | SerenityOS |
| Andreas Rumpf | — | Alive | programming languages | Nim |
| Andrew Kelley | — | Alive | programming languages | Zig |
| Arthur Whitney | — | Alive | programming languages | K |
| Ary Borenszweig | — | Alive | programming languages | Crystal |
| Ben Olmstead | — | Alive | programming languages | Malbolge |
| Bill HallgingerBill | — | Alive | programming languages | Odin |
| Bruce Horn | — | Alive | operating systems | — |
| Chandler Carruth | — | Alive | programming languages | Carbon |
| Chris Lattner | — | Alive | programming languages | Swift Mojo |
| Chris Pressey | — | Alive | programming languages | Befunge |
| Dan Dodge | — | Alive | operating systems | QNX |
| David Madore | — | Alive | programming languages | Unlambda |
| David May | — | Alive | programming languages | occam |
| David Morgan-Mar | — | Alive | programming languages | Piet |
| David Ungar | — | Alive | programming languages | Self |
| Don Syme | — | Alive | programming languages | F# |
| Drew DeVault | — | Alive | programming languages | Hare |
| Edwin Brady | — | Alive | programming languages | Whitespace Idris |
| Evan Czaplicki | — | Alive | programming languages | Elm |
| Fredrik Hübinette | — | Alive | programming languages | Pike |
| Gert Smolka | — | Alive | programming languages | Oz |
| James Strachan | — | Alive | programming languages | Groovy |
| Jeff Bezanson | — | Alive | programming languages | Julia |
| Jeffrey Snover | — | Alive | programming languages | PowerShell |
| Jim Hall | — | Alive | operating systems | FreeDOS |
| José Valim | — | Alive | programming languages | Elixir |
| Juan Linietsky | — | Alive | programming languages | GDScript |
| Jürg Billeter | — | Alive | programming languages | Vala |
| Kasper Lund | — | Alive | programming languages | Dart |
| Lars Bak | — | Alive | programming languages | Dart |
| Leo Geurts | — | Alive | programming languages | ABC |
| Leonardo de Moura | — | Alive | programming languages | Lean |
| Louis Pilfold | — | Alive | programming languages | Gleam |
| Luca Cardelli | — | Alive | programming languages | Modula-3 |
| Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo | — | Alive | programming languages | Lua |
| Manfred von Thun | — | Alive | programming languages | Joy |
| Matthew Dillon | — | Alive | operating systems | DragonFly BSD |
| Mike Cowlishaw | — | Alive | programming languages | REXX |
| Neil Pappalardo | — | Alive | programming languages | MUMPS |
| Nenad Rakočević | — | Alive | programming languages | Red |
| Nicolas Cannasse | — | Alive | programming languages | Haxe |
| Patricia Selinger | — | Alive | databases | — |
| Paul Falstad | — | Alive | programming languages | Z shell |
| Paul Laughton | — | Alive | operating systems | Apple DOS |
| Randall B. Smith | — | Alive | programming languages | Self |
| Rich Hickey | — | Alive | programming languages | Clojure |
| Robert Virding | — | Alive | programming languages | Erlang |
| Rocky L. Oliver | — | Alive | programming languages | AdaLog MALBR RockyBASIC AdaLogic BASIC |
| Satoshi Nakamoto | — | Alive | Cryptography | Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System |
| Slava Pestov | — | Alive | programming languages | Factor |
| Stefan Karpinski | — | Alive | programming languages | Julia |
| Steve Dekorte | — | Alive | programming languages | Io |
| Sylvan Clebsch | — | Alive | programming languages | Pony |
| Ulf Norell | — | Alive | programming languages | Agda |
| Urban Müller | — | Alive | programming languages | Brainfuck |
| Ville Turjanmaa | — | Alive | operating systems | MenuetOS |
| Viral Shah | — | Alive | programming languages | Julia |
| Waldemar Celes | — | Alive | programming languages | Lua |
| Wayne Ratliff | — | Alive | programming languages | dBase |
| Zoltan Somogyi | — | Alive | programming languages | Mercury |
| minexew | — | Alive | operating systems | Shrine |
| Jack Dennis | 1931– | Alive | theory | — |
| Douglas McIlroyDoug McIlroy | 1932– | Alive | operating systems | — |
| Leonard Kleinrock | 1934– | Alive | networking | — |
| Tony HoareC. A. R. Hoare | 1934– | Alive | theory | ALGOL W An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming Communicating Sequential Processes The Emperor's Old Clothes Rust |
| Cynthia Solomon | 1935– | Alive | programming languages | Logo |
| Richard Karp | 1935– | Alive | theory | — |
| Ted Nelson | 1937– | Alive | web | — |
| Bob KahnRobert Kahn | 1938– | Alive | networking | A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication |
| Charles H. MooreChuck Moore | 1938– | Alive | programming languages | Fairchild Semiconductor Intel Forth |
| Donald Knuth | 1938– | Alive | theory | The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1 Literate Programming |
| Ivan Sutherland | 1938– | Alive | Computer graphics | Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System |
| Barbara Liskov | 1939– | Alive | programming languages | CLU |
| Cleve Moler | 1939– | Alive | programming languages | MATLAB |
| John Hopcroft | 1939– | Alive | theory | — |
| Stephen Cook | 1939– | Alive | theory | — |
| Alan Kay | 1940– | Alive | programming languages | Smalltalk A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages The Early History of Smalltalk |
| Elizabeth Rather | 1940– | Alive | programming languages | — |
| Martin Richards | 1940– | Alive | programming languages | BCPL |
| Alfred Aho | 1941– | Alive | programming languages | AWK |
| David Parnas | 1941– | Alive | theory | On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules |
| John M. Chambers | 1941– | Alive | programming languages | S |
| Leslie Lamport | 1941– | Alive | theory | Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System |
| Robert Kowalski | 1941– | Alive | programming languages | — |
| Brian Kernighan | 1942– | Alive | programming languages | AWK |
| Dave Cutler | 1942– | Alive | operating systems | Windows NT / Windows |
| Jeffrey Ullman | 1942– | Alive | theory | — |
| Peter J. Denning | 1942– | Alive | theory | — |
| Peter Weinberger | 1942– | Alive | programming languages | AWK |
| Butler Lampson | 1943– | Alive | operating systems | Hints for Computer System Design |
| David Korn | 1943– | Alive | programming languages | KornShell |
| Ken Thompson | 1943– | Alive | operating systems | B Research Unix The UNIX Time-Sharing System Reflections on Trusting Trust Plan 9 from Bell Labs Go |
| Michael Stonebraker | 1943– | Alive | databases | — |
| Vint Cerf | 1943– | Alive | networking | A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication |
| Andrew S. Tanenbaum | 1944– | Alive | operating systems | MINIX |
| Dan Ingalls | 1944– | Alive | programming languages | Smalltalk |
| Don Chamberlin | 1944– | Alive | databases | SQL |
| Jean-Louis Gassée | 1944– | Alive | operating systems | BeOS |
| P. J. Plauger | 1944– | Alive | programming languages | — |
| Richard GreenblattRicky Greenblatt | 1944– | Alive | operating systems | ITS Lisp Machines, Inc. |
| Stephen Bourne | 1944– | Alive | programming languages | Bourne shell |
| Adele Goldberg | 1945– | Alive | programming languages | Smalltalk |
| Lee Felsenstein | 1945– | Alive | computing | — |
| Philippe Roussel | 1945– | Alive | programming languages | Prolog |
| Bob Metcalfe | 1946– | Alive | networking | — |
| David Turner | 1946– | Alive | programming languages | Miranda |
| L. Peter Deutsch | 1946– | Alive | programming languages | — |
| David H. D. Warren | 1947– | Alive | programming languages | — |
| Gerald Jay Sussman | 1947– | Alive | programming languages | Scheme Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative |
| Hal AbelsonHarold Abelson | 1947– | Alive | programming languages | — |
| Charles Simonyi | 1948– | Alive | computing | — |
| Robert Tarjan | 1948– | Alive | theory | — |
| Richard P. Gabriel | 1949– | Alive | programming languages | Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big |
| Bertrand Meyer | 1950– | Alive | programming languages | Eiffel |
| Bjarne Stroustrup | 1950– | Alive | programming languages | C++ |
| Steve WozniakWoz | 1950– | Alive | computing | Apple Computer Apple I Apple II |
| Dan Bricklin | 1951– | Alive | computing | — |
| 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 |
| Guy L. Steele Jr. | 1954– | Alive | programming languages | Scheme Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative Fortress |
| John Ousterhout | 1954– | Alive | programming languages | Tcl |
| Larry Wall | 1954– | Alive | programming languages | Perl Raku |
| Ross Ihaka | 1954– | Alive | programming languages | R |
| Bill Gates | 1955– | Alive | operating systems | Microsoft |
| James Gosling | 1955– | Alive | programming languages | Java |
| Tim Berners-Lee | 1955– | Alive | web | Information Management: A Proposal |
| Guido van Rossum | 1956– | Alive | programming languages | Python |
| Mitchel ResnickMitch Resnick | 1956– | Alive | programming languages | Scratch |
| Rob Pike | 1956– | Alive | operating systems | Plan 9 from Bell Labs Go |
| Tim Paterson | 1956– | Alive | operating systems | MS-DOS |
| Carl Sassenrath | 1957– | Alive | programming languages | AmigaOS REBOL |
| Martin Odersky | 1958– | Alive | programming languages | Scala |
| Brian Fox | 1959– | Alive | programming languages | Bash |
| Robert Gentleman | 1959– | Alive | programming languages | R |
| Stephen Wolfram | 1959– | Alive | programming languages | Wolfram Language |
| Walter Bright | 1959– | Alive | programming languages | D |
| Anders Hejlsberg | 1960– | Alive | programming languages | Delphi C# TypeScript |
| Gilad Bracha | 1960– | Alive | programming languages | — |
| Roberto Ierusalimschy | 1960– | Alive | programming languages | Lua |
| Brendan Eich | 1961– | Alive | programming languages | JavaScript |
| Thierry Coquand | 1961– | Alive | programming languages | Rocq |
| Alan Edelman | 1963– | Alive | programming languages | Julia |
| Urs Hölzle | 1964– | Alive | programming languages | — |
| Yukihiro MatsumotoMatz | 1965– | Alive | programming languages | Ruby |
| Theo de Raadt | 1967– | Alive | operating systems | OpenBSD |
| Rasmus Lerdorf | 1968– | Alive | programming languages | PHP |
| Xavier Leroy | 1968– | Alive | programming languages | OCaml |
| Linus Torvalds | 1969– | Alive | operating systems | Linux |
| Larry Page | 1973– | Alive | Search | Google The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine |
| Sergey Brin | 1973– | Alive | Search | Google The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine |
| Gavin Wood | 1980– | Alive | programming languages | Solidity |