| Simon | Baron-Cohen | British clinical psychologist. |
| Fan | Hui | European Go champion. |
| David | Sacks | PayPal COO. |
| Janet | Abbate | Virginia Tech professor. |
| Mark | Abene | Hacker in the '80s. Aka: Phiber Optik. |
| Jobert | Abma | Co-founded HackerOne. |
| John | Adams | Programmer. |
| Mortimer J. | Adler | Philosopher. |
| Jan | Albrecht | EU legislator from Germany. |
| Jonathan | Albright | Researcher at Columbia University. |
| Jacky | Alciné | Freelance web developer. |
| Fran | Allen | Pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. |
| Paul | Allen | Bill Gates's former schoolmate. |
| Sam | Altman | Chairman of Y Combinator. |
| Teresa M. | Amabile | Harvard professor. |
| Tom | Anderson | Founder of MySpace. |
| Marc | Andreessen | Netscape co-founder. |
| Julian | Assange | Australian editor, publisher and activist. |
| Jeff | Atwood | Co-founder of Stack Overflow. |
| Charles | Babbage | English polymath. |
| A. J. | Bahnken | Phillips's friend. |
| Erica | Baker | Build-release engineer. |
| Stewart | Baker | Former NSA general counsel. |
| Amulya | Balakrishnan | One of the creators of reVIVE. |
| James | Baldwin | American novelist. |
| Greg | Baugues | Coder |
| Kent | Beck | Software engineer and the creator of extreme programming. |
| Fred | Benenson | Coder. |
| Jens | Bergensten | Lead Minecraft developer. |
| Daniel | Bernstein | Computer scientist. |
| Frances | Bilas | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| David | Bill | Veteran coder. |
| Matt | Blaze | Computer scientist. |
| Matt | Blaze | Researcher in secure systems and trust management. |
| Evgeniy M. | Bogachev | One of the FBI's most-wanted hackers. |
| Ian | Bogost | Philosopher and technologist. |
| Ian | Bogost | Philosopher and game designer. |
| Grady | Booch | IBM coder. |
| George | Boole | Self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician. |
| Nick | Bostrom | Philosopher, heads the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. |
| Andrew | Bosworth | Zuckerberg's former Harvard teaching assistant. Aka: Boz. |
| Danah | Boyd | Anthropologist. |
| Gwen | Braithwaite | Young woman in Toronto. |
| Greg | Brandeau | Executive vice president at Pixar. |
| Richard | Brandon | Industry analyst. |
| Tyler | Breisacher | Former Google employee. |
| Johanna | Brewer | Self taught programmer. |
| Sergey | Brin | Co-founded Google. |
| Fred | Brooks | Author of The Mythical Man-Mont. |
| Oliver | Brotherhood | British Minecraft YouTuber. Aka: Mumbo Jumbo. |
| Barrett | Brown | Government-transparency activist. |
| Lord | Bryon | English poet, peer, and politician. |
| Andrew | Bunner | Charged with distributing the DeCSS code. |
| Joy | Buolamwini | African American coder. |
| Tarana | Burke | Activist. |
| Orkut | Buyukkokten | One of Google's interviewer. |
| Matt | Cahill | One of Sanghvi's collaborators. |
| Justin | Caldbeck | Venture capitalists. |
| Ezra | Callahan | One of Facebook's early employees. |
| Donald | Campbell | Social psychologist. |
| William | Cannon | Psychologists. |
| Bryan | Cantrill | Programmer. |
| John | Carmack | Video game developer and engineer. |
| Dale | Carnegie | Programmer. |
| Nicholas | Carr | Author of The Glass Cage. |
| Maciej | Cegłowski | Polish-American web developer, entrepreneur, and social critic. |
| Emily | Chang | Journalist. |
| Emily | Chang | Author of Brotopia. |
| Andrew | Charlebois | Carpenter. |
| Rameet | Chawla | Tech entrepreneur. |
| David | Choe | Graffiti artist. |
| Tracy | Chou | Former programmer at Pinterest. |
| Elizabeth | Churchill | Director of user experience at Google. |
| Danielle | Citron | Professor of Law at Boston University Law School. |
| Dori | Clark | Coder for a financial service. |
| Wesley | Clark | American physicist. Design and build the LINC. |
| Mr. | Clean | Everingham's hacker friend. |
| Bram | Cohen | BitTorrent inventor. |
| Gabriella | Coleman | Anthropologist. |
| Gabriella | Coleman | Anthropologist. |
| Tressie M. | Cottom | American writer, sociologist, and professor. |
| Garland | Couch | Laid-off coal-mine worker in Kentucky. |
| James | Cowling | MIT student. |
| Chris | Cox | Former chief product officer at Facebook. |
| Matthew B. | Crawford | American writer. |
| Dennis | Crowley | Co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball. |
| Mihály | Csíkszentmihályi | Psychologists. |
| Bill | Curtis | Software manager. |
| Adam | D'Angelo | Former CTO of Facebook. |
| James | Damore | Senior software engineer at Google. |
| Anil | Dash | CEO of Glitch. |
| Monte | Davidoff | American computer programmer. |
| Luis | De Castro | One student at Dev Bootcamp. |
| Jeff | Dean | Head of Google AI division. |
| Whit | Diffie | Computer scientist. |
| Edsger W. | Dijkstra | Pioneering computer scientist. |
| Akshaya | Dinesh | One of the creators of reVIVE. |
| Renée | DiResta | Author. |
| John | Doerr | American investor and venture capitalist. |
| Pedro | Domingos | AI pioneer at the University of Washington. |
| Jack | Dorsey | One of the founders of Twitter. |
| Natasha | Dow Schüll | Anthropologist. |
| Sarah | Drasner | Coder. |
| Rodrigo | Duterte | President of the Philippines. |
| Thomas | Edison | American inventor and businessman. |
| Bonnie | Eisenman | Programmer for Twitter. |
| Kelly | Ellis | Former Google engineer. |
| Nathan | Ensmenger | Author of The Computer Boys Take Over. |
| Nathan | Ensmenger | Historian. |
| Carolina | Erickson | One of Catalyte's employee. |
| James | Everingham | One of the teenagers amused by VIC-20. |
| Dave | Ferrucci | Lead the development of the Watson computer system. |
| Allan | Fisher | Former associate dean of the computer science program at CMU. |
| Brad | Fitzpatrick | Inventor of the pioneering blogging site LiveJournal. |
| Brad | Fitzpatrick | Creator of LiveJournal. |
| Avi | Flombaum | Founder of the Flatiron School. |
| B. J. | Fogg | Behavior scientist and author. |
| Chad | Fowler | Author of The Passionate Programmer. |
| Martin | Fowler | British software developer and author. |
| Susan | Fowler | Programmer. |
| Robert | Frank | Economist. |
| Jonathan | Franzen | American novelist and essayist. |
| Henry | Gan | Coder at Gfycat. |
| Antonio | García Martínez | Former Facebook ad-tech employee. |
| Sue | Gardner | Ran Wikimedia Foundation. |
| David | Gasca | Product manager at Twitter. |
| Bill | Gates | Principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. |
| Rich | Geldreich | Hurlburt's friend. |
| Sanjay | Ghemawat | Dean's colleague. |
| Dipayan | Ghosh | Worked for Facebook. |
| Frank | Gilbreth | American engineer, consultant, and author. |
| Adele | Goldberg | Co-creator of Smalltalk language. |
| Rube | Goldberg | American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. |
| I. J. | Good | Statistician. |
| Bill | Gosper | American mathematician and programmer. |
| Paul | Graham | Computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and essayist. |
| Ricky | Greenblatt | Computer programmer. |
| David | Greene | Civil liberties director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. |
| Diane | Greene | Head of Google Cloud. |
| Dave | Guarino | Director and developer for Code for America. |
| Jonathan | Hamilton | Software architect. |
| Margaret | Hamilton | American computer scientist and systems engineer. |
| Scott | Hanselman | Programmer for Microsoft. |
| Tristan | Harris | Built an app called Send the Sunshine |
| David H. | Hansson | Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails. |
| Jen | Helsby | Coder for SecureDrop. |
| Cal | Henderson | CTO and co-founder of Slack. |
| Charles | Hermany | Engineer and architect. |
| Marie | Hicks | Former UNIX administrator. |
| Danny | Hillis | Pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence. |
| Geoff | Hinton | British computer scientist. |
| Jason | Ho | Hacker. |
| Jacob Hoffman | Andrews | Former Twitter engineer. |
| Jean | Hollands | Psychologists. Author of The Silicon Syndrome. |
| J. Edgar | Hoover | First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| Grace | Hopper | One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. |
| Drew | Houston | Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. |
| Jake | Hsu | Catalyte's CEO. |
| Stephanie | Hurlburt | Founded a start-up called Binomial. |
| Cate | Huston | coder. |
| Marcus | Hutchins | Researcher for Kryptos Logic |
| Bobby | Inman | Former head of the NSA. |
| Lilly | Irani | Associate professor at the University of California, |
| Lance | Ivy | Coder. |
| Jenna | Jameson | Porn star. |
| Clara | Jeffery | Editor in chief of Mother Jones. |
| Betty | Jennings | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| Paras | Jha | Computer science student. |
| Kang-Xing | Jin | One of Sanghvi's collaborators. Aka: KX. |
| Jon Lech | Johansen | Norwegian coder. |
| Justin | Johnson | Researcher who works in Facebook's AI lab. |
| Maggie | Johnson | Google's vice president of education. |
| Mat | Johnson | University of Houston professor. |
| Norah | Jones | American singer-songwriter. |
| Rusty | Justice | Bit Source owner. |
| Brewster | Kahle | Advocate of universal access to all knowledge. |
| Travis | Kalanick | Uber's former CEO. |
| David | Kalt | CEO of Reverb. |
| Jacob | Kaplan-Moss | Python developer. |
| Brian | Kernighan | Computer scientist. Contributed to the development of Unix. |
| Maria | Klawe | President of Harvey Mudd College. |
| Makoto | Koike | Japanese computer engineer. |
| Steven J. | Kramer | Harvard researcher. |
| Brian | Krebs | Journalist. |
| Mike | Krieger | Co-founded Instagram. |
| Sarah | Lacy | Journalist. |
| Quincy | Larson | Ran an English schools in China. |
| Ed | Lazowska | Computer science professor at the University of Washington. |
| Yann | LeCun | French scientist. |
| Cynthia | Lee | Stanford professor. |
| Jennifer 8. | Lee | American journalist. |
| Kai-Fu | Lee | Invented the first "plain-talk speech recognition". |
| Gottfried | Leibniz | Polymath, logicians, mathematicians and natural philosopher. |
| Jason | Leopold | BuzzFeed investigative reporter. |
| Sarah-Jane | Leslie | Cognitive scientist. |
| Max | Levchin | Developed and co-founded PayPal. |
| Josh | Levy | Longtime veteran of several Silicon Valley firms. |
| Steven | Levy | American journalist. |
| Clayton | Lewis | Computer science professor. |
| Fei-Fei | Li | Google chief AI scientist. |
| Ruth | Lichterman | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| Andrew | Loewenstern | Cohen's friend. |
| Michael | Lopp | Vice president of engineering at Slack. |
| Ada | Lovelace | English mathematician and writer. |
| Kátia | Lund | Brazilian film director and screenwriter. |
| Neil | Malhotra | Stanford professor of political economy. |
| Chelsea | Manning | Army intelligence analyst. |
| Jane | Margolis | Social scientist. |
| Moxie | Marlinspike | Crypto hacker. |
| Hayk | Martiros | Programmer. |
| Karl | Marx | German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist. |
| Hilary | Mason | Founder of technology startup Fast Forward Labs. |
| Hilary | Mason | Data and machine-learning scientist. |
| John CC | Mayo | Investor who helped bring coal mining to the region. |
| John | McCarthy | Computer scientist. |
| Dave | McClure | Founder of 500 Startups. |
| Jill | McFarlane | Bug checker. |
| Jessica | McKellar | Director of engineering at Dropbox. |
| Kathleen | McNulty | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| Robyn | Miller | Co-designer of the popular computer game Myst. |
| Charles | Molnar | Clark's colleague. |
| Robert | Moses | Famous city planner in midcentury New York. Aka: master builder. |
| Dustin | Moskovitz | Zuckerberg's roommate at Harvard. |
| Robert | Mueller | US special investigator. |
| Matt | Mullenweg | WordPress co-founder. |
| Bobby | Murphy | American Internet entrepreneur and software engineer. |
| Elon | Musk | Tesla founder. |
| Satoshi | Nakamoto | Pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin. |
| Ben | Newhouse | One of Houston's highly productive coders. |
| Andrew | Ng | Stanford professor. Part-time consultant for Google X. |
| Johnathan | Nightingale | Former general manager of Firefox. |
| Peter | Norvig | Director of research at Google Inc. |
| Cathy | O'Neil | Mathematician. |
| Ryan | Olson | Lead engineer for Instagram. |
| Larry | Page | Co-founded Google. |
| Ellen | Pao | Investor for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. |
| Seymour | Papert | Mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. |
| Seymour | Papert | MIT's pioneering educational theorist. |
| Ben | Parr | American journalist, author, venture capitalist and entrepreneur. |
| Lynn | Parrish | Justice's business partner. |
| Lucy | Parsons | Labor organizer, radical socialist and anarcho-communist. |
| Richard | Parsons | Former head of Time Warner. |
| Sowmya | Patapati | One of the creators of reVIVE. |
| Meredith L. | Patterson | Programmer. |
| Ron | Paul | American author, physician, and retired politician. |
| Alex | Payne | Former coder for Twitter. |
| Leah | Pearlman | Former designer at Facebook. |
| Dallis | Perry | Psychologists. |
| Steve | Phillips | Programmer. |
| Steve | Phillips | LeapChat creator. |
| Sundar | Pichai | Google CEO. |
| John | Podesta | Former White House Chief of Staff. |
| Miriam | Posner | Coder who teaches Information Studies at UCLA. |
| Ezra | Pound | American poet and critic. |
| Mitch | Pronschinske | Former editor at TechBeacon. |
| Keith | Rabois | PayPal vice president. |
| Ali | Rahimi | AI programmer for Google. |
| Alex | Rainert | Crowley's fellow student back then. |
| Santosh | Rajan | Founder of Geekskool. |
| Lisa | Rein | Co-founder of Creative Commons. |
| Rob | Rhinehart | Inventor of Soylent. |
| Eric | Roberts | Former computer science professor at Wellesley and Harvard. |
| Oleg | Rogynskyy | Co-founder and CEO of People.ai. |
| Justin | Rosenstein | Software programmer and entrepreneur. |
| Blake | Ross | Co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox internet browser. |
| Andy | Rubin | Creator of Android. |
| Donald | Rumsfeld | Former U.S. Congressman. |
| Douglas | Rushkoff | Media theorist, columnist, graphic novelist, and documentarian. |
| Douglas | Rushkoff | Social critic. |
| Slug | Russell | American computer scientist famous for creating Spacewar!. |
| Ernest | Rutherford | Physicist. |
| Chris | Sacca | Venture capitalists. |
| Hal | Sackman | Researcher at System Development Corporation. |
| William | Safire | New York Times columnist. |
| Jean | Sammet | Developed the FORMAC programming language. |
| Ruchi | Sanghvi | First female engineer hired by Facebook. |
| Ruhi | Sarikaya | Computer engineer and director Soylent. |
| Anita | Sarkeesian | Canadian-American feminist media critic and public speaker. |
| Linda | Sax | Education professor at UCLA. |
| Tim | Schafer | Video game designer |
| Carsten | Schürmann | Danish computer scientist. |
| Lee | Sedol | Another elite Go player. |
| Mary | Shelley | English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein. |
| Clay | Shirky | American writer, consultant and teacher. |
| Elsie | Shutt | Computer programmer who founded Computation Incorporated. |
| Ben | Silbermann | Pinterest co-founder. |
| David | Silver | Former lead researcher on AlphaGo and co-lead on AlphaStar. |
| C. J. | Silverio | Chief technological officer of the tech firm NPM. |
| Craig | Silverstein | First person employed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google. |
| Dmitry | Sklyarov | Russian coder. |
| Adam | Smithian | Scottish economist, philosopher and author. |
| Edward | Snowden | Computer-security contractor for the NSA. |
| Elizabeth | Snyder | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| Rob | Spectre | Former consultant for counter human trafficking units across US. |
| Robyn | Speer | Co-founder and chief science officer of Luminoso. |
| Ellen | Spertus | Computer scientist. |
| Joel | Spolsky | Co-founder of Fog Creek Software |
| Richard | Stallman | American free software movement activist and programmer. |
| Arnold | Starr | Chair of the Department of Neurology. |
| William | Stevens | One of the first trainee at Bit Source. |
| Biz | Stone | One of the founders of Twitter. |
| Bjarne | Stroustrup | The designer of the C++. |
| Danny | Sullivan | Founder of Search Engine Watch. |
| Aaron | Swartz | Coder and activist. |
| Kevin | Systrom | Co-founded Instagram. |
| Jason | Tanz | Journalist. |
| Christian | Ternus | Infosec coder. |
| Peter | Thiel | Lawyer. |
| Ken | Thompson | American pioneer of computer science. |
| Jacob | Thornton | Programmer. |
| Chris | Thorpe | Veteran coder. |
| Linus | Torvalds | Finnish university student. |
| Zeynep | Tufekci | Associate professor at the University of North Carolina. |
| Alan | Turing | Mathematician, computer scientist and theoretical biologist. |
| Fred | Turner | Communications scholar at Stanford. |
| Jamie | Turner | Dropbox engineer. |
| Jamie | Turner | Dropbox engineer. |
| Safiya | Umoja Noble | Author of Algorithms of Oppression. |
| Nnamdi | Uwazie | Nigerian cabdriver. |
| Siva | Vaidhyanathan | Author of Antisocial Media. |
| Roli | Varma | Social scientist. |
| Wernher | von Braun | American-German aerospace engineer. |
| Larry | Wall | Created the Perl programming language. |
| Larry | Wall | Creator of Perl. |
| Matt | Ward | British author and miniature wargaming designer. |
| Harvey | Weinstein | Former film producer. |
| Jonathan | Weisman | The New York Times editor. |
| Joseph | Weizenbaum | German American computer scientist and a professor at MIT. |
| Marlyn | Wescoff | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| Max | Whitney | Programmer. |
| William H. | Whyte | Author of The Organization Man. |
| Mary Allen | Wilkes | Former computer programmer and logic designer. |
| Maurice | Wilkes | Designed the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator. |
| Alan | Williams | Guarino's teammates. |
| James | Williams | Former Google employee. |
| Jeannette | Wing | Columbia University professor. |
| Virginia | Woolf | English writer. |
| Steve | Wozniak | Co-founded Apple Inc. |
| Brianna | Wu | Game designer. |
| Ron | Wyden | United States Senator. |
| Wang | Xing | CEO of Meituan Dianping. |
| Jinghao | Yan | Engineer at Facebook. |
| Kevin | Yang | Lead programmer and co-founder People.ai. |
| Marty | Yee | Coder. |
| Saron | Yitbarek | Programmer who founded CodeNewbie. |
| Michael | Young | British politician. |
| Jamie | Zawinski | Worked on the Netscape browser. |
| Jamie | Zawinski | Netscape coder. |
| Matt | Zeiler | Founder and CEO of Clarifai. |
| Phil | Zimmermann | American computer scientist and cryptographer. |
| Mark | Zuckerberg | Co-founded and CEO of Facebook. |
| Yonatan | Zunger | Former Google engineer. |
| Konrad | Zuse | Inventor of the first digital computer. |
| Aristotle | | Greek philosopher during Greek Classical
period. |
| Austin | | Amatuer hacker. |
| Christina | | Coder in San Francisco. |
| Jenna | | Cohen's wife. |
| Kim | | Google employee. |
| Michael | | A guy who switched jobs into coding. |
| Mo | | Hanselman's wife. |
| Rick | | Self-professed rock star programmer. |
| Riley | | Cohen's daughter. |
