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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.

204 people ranked by attention right now compared with their usual. See who's rising fastest.

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David Kogan

David Barnett Kogan is a British media executive, historian and journalist, living in London. He has worked as both a journalist and a senior executive at the BBC, Reuters Television, Granada Channels, Wasserman Media Group and Magnum Photos. He has written about the history of the Labour Party.

#98 Tech

Huldrych Zwingli

Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484–1531)

#99 Tech

Arthur Mensch

French entrepreneur, AI researcher and startup leader (born 1992)

#100 Tech

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects (born 1968)

#101 Tech

Abdullah Öcalan

founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

#102 Tech

Bjarne Stroustrup

Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)

#103 Tech

Ken Thompson

American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)

#104 Tech

Meg Whitman

American business executive

#105 Tech

Marissa Mayer

American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!

#106 Tech

Rory Sutherland (advertising executive)

Roderick Henry "Rory" Sutherland is a Welsh advertising executive. He is the President Emeritus of Ogilvy Consulting. Sutherland writes a fortnightly column in The Spectator and has written several books, including Alchemy: The Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense.

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#107 Tech

Louis Braille

French educator and inventor of braille (1809–1852)

#108 Tech

Abdul Ghani Baradar

co-founder and political leader of the Afghan Taliban

#109 Tech

Kristalina Georgieva

Bulgarian economist and CEO

#110 Tech

Kailash Satyarthi

Indian Social Worker

#111 Tech

Tu Youyou

Chinese medical scientist

#112 Tech

Shuji Nakamura

Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics

#113 Tech

Katalin Karikó

Hungarian biochemist

#114 Tech

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

American-Dutch computer scientist

#115 Tech

Kevin Cosgrove

Kevin Michael Cosgrove was an American insurance senior business executive who served as vice president at Aon Corporation. A victim of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Cosgrove is notable for the 911 call he made during his final moments, which abruptly ended with him screaming from inside the South Tower as it collapsed. Cosgrove's last words made international headlines, and the recording was used during the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui.

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