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Mark Shuttleworth
South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station
Ward Cunningham
American computer programmer
Frances Arnold
Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)
Andre Geim
Russian-born Dutch-British physicist
Uli Hoeneß
German football executive (born 1952)
Peter Thiel
German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
John Hopfield
American scientist (born 1933)
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company which was acquired by Google. After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022.
Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer
Jerry Yang
founder of Yahoo!
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
Li Ning
Chinese artistic gymnast and entrepreneur (born 1963)
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
Sergei Krikalev
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
Roger Ailes
Roger Eugene Ailes was an American television executive and media consultant. He was the chairman and CEO of Fox News, Fox Television Stations and 20th Television. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, and for Rudy Giuliani's 1989 New York City mayoral election. In July 2016, he left Fox News after allegations of sexually harassing female Fox employees, including on-air hosts Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Andrea Tantaros.
Spencer Matthews
Spencer George Matthews is a British television personality and entrepreneur, known for his appearances on Made in Chelsea. He has also appeared on other television shows such as Celebrity MasterChef and The Jump. He is the founder and CBO of CleanCo non-alcoholic spirits. In 2024, Matthews became a Guinness World Records holder, when he completed thirty marathons in thirty days for charity.
Matthew Michalewicz
Matthew Michalewicz is a Polish entrepreneur and author with experience in the fields of technology, commercialization and supply chain management. He is the co-author of a number of books and publications, some of which have been adapted into courses on problem solving in colleges and universities. He is the co-founder of NuTech Solutions, SolveIT Software, and Complexica, companies that he started with his father Zbigniew Michalewicz. In 2012, SolveIT Software Pty Ltd, was acquired by Schne...
Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu is an Indian billionaire business magnate and the founder and former chief executive officer of the Zoho Corporation. As per the Forbes list of India's 100 richest tycoons, dated October 8, 2025, Vembu and siblings are ranked 51st, with a net worth of US$6 billion.
Jim Hendry
James Hendry is an American baseball executive. He is a special assistant for New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, and is a former general manager of the Chicago Cubs.