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Founders, executives, engineers and investors shaping the technology industry, ranked by current search interest. Product launches, funding rounds, lawsuits and leadership changes are the usual reasons a tech name starts trending.
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John McLaughlin
English guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Indra Nooyi
Indian-American business executive and former CEO of PepsiCo (born 1955)
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
Klaus Schwab
German economist, founder of World Economic Forum
Liu Cixin
Chinese science fiction writer
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian electrical engineer and inventor (1874–1937)
James Watt
Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist (1736–1819)
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
Miuccia Prada
Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur
Ronald Wayne
American engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc. (born 1934)
Daniel Tammet
British writer, mathematician, essayist and autistic savant
Carl Benz
German designer and engineer (1844–1929)
Gustave Eiffel
French civil engineer (1832–1923)
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
Sundar Pichai
Indian-American business executive, CEO of Google LLC & Alphabet Inc.
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951)
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Before that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI.
Daniel Lewin
Daniel Mark Lewin was an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded Akamai Technologies. He was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, and it is believed that he had his throat slashed by Satam al-Suqami, one of the hijackers of that flight, making him the first victim of the September 11 attacks.
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Jim Farley (businessman)
James Duncan Farley Jr. is an American businessman. He is the CEO of Ford Motor Company, a board member of McDonald's, and former board member of Harley-Davidson.
Erik Prince
Erik Dean Prince is an American businessman, who is the founder of private military contractor Blackwater. He was Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010. Prince founded the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group in 2012 and was chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group until 2021. Prince is the son of engineer and businessman Edgar Prince, and the brother of former U.S. secretary of education Betsy DeVos.
Li Ka-shing
Hong Kong billionaire and entrepreneur
Scott Kirby
John Scott Kirby is an American executive and the CEO of United Airlines. He was president of US Airways, American Airlines, and United Airlines, later being promoted as CEO.