Programming language designers

David A. Turner (born 1946) is a British computer scientist.

Markus Hendrik "Mark" Overmars (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɑrkɵs ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈmɑrk ˈoːvərˌmɑrs]; born 29 September 1958 in Zeist, Netherlands) is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of game programming known for his game development application Game Maker.

Andrei Alexandrescu (born 1969) is a Romanian-American C++ and D language programmer and author.

Walter Bright is an American computer programmer and the creator of the D programming language.

Jeremy Ashkenas is computer programmer known for the creation and co-creation of the CoffeeScript and LiveScript programming languages respectively, the Backbone.

Xavier Leroy (born March 15, 1968) is a French computer scientist and programmer.

Anders Hejlsberg (/hɑːlsbɛrɡ/, born December 1960) is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools.

John M. Chambers is the creator of the S programming language, and core member of the R programming language project.

Carl Sassenrath (born 1957 in California) is an architect of operating systems and computer languages.

Gul Agha is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Open Systems Laboratory.

Dr. Alexander Repenning is the Director of the Scalable Game Design project, a computer science professor, a founder of AgentSheets Inc.

Brad Cox is a computer scientist and Ph.

Heinz Zemanek (1 January 1920 – 16 July 2014) was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorised computers on the European continent.

Phyllis Ann Fox (born 1923) is an American mathematician and computer scientist.

Jean E. Sammet (born March 23, 1928 in New York City) is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962.

Andy J. Wellings is a professor in the Computer Science department at the University of York in northern England.

Anthony James Barr (born September 24, 1940), aka Tony Barr or Jim Barr, is an American programming language designer, software engineer, and inventor.

Craig Chambers, Professor at the University of Washington, joined the department of Computer Science and Engineering in 1991.

Uwe Schöning (born December 28, 1955) is a German computer scientist, known for his research in computational complexity theory.

Heinz Rutishauser (30 January 1918 in Weinfelden, Switzerland – 10 November 1970 in Zürich) was a Swiss mathematician and a pioneer of modern numerical mathematics and computer science.

Ralph E. Griswold (May 19, 1934, Modesto, CA – October 4, 2006, Tucson, AZ) was a computer scientist known for his research into high-level programming languages and symbolic computation.

Stephen Richard (Steve) Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is a computer scientist, originally from the United Kingdom and based in the United States for most of his career.

Klaus Samelson (December 21, 1918 – May 25, 1980) was a German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation and push-pop stack algorithms for sequential formula translation on computers.

David Sayre (March 2, 1924 – February 23, 2012) was an American scientist, credited with the early development of direct methods for protein crystallography and of diffraction microscopy (also called coherent diffraction imaging).

Jacob Theodore "Jack" Schwartz (January 9, 1930 – March 2, 2009) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Peter Jay Weinberger (born August 6, 1942) is a computer scientist best known for his early work at Bell Labs.

Gerald Jay Sussman (born February 8, 1947) is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Guy Lewis Steele Jr.

Arthur Whitney is a Canadian computer scientist most notable for developing the APL-inspired programming languages A+ and K and co-founding the company Kx Systems.

Alain Colmerauer (born 24 January 1941 in Carcassonne) is a French computer scientist and the creator of the logic programming language Prolog.

Charles Leonard Hamblin (1922 – 14 May 1985) was an Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer, as well as a professor of philosophy at the New South Wales University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales) in Sydney.

Christopher S. Strachey (/ˈstreɪtʃi/; 16 November 1916 – 18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist.

Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language which is both part of early research into portable software, and the ancestor of the B programming language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of his widely used C programming language.

Robert Fourer (born September 2, 1950) is a scientist working in the area of operational research and management science.

Patrick Naughton (born in 1965) is an American software developer, known as one of the creators of the Java programming language and later a high-profile sex offender.

Louis Hodes (June 19, 1934 – June 30, 2008) was an American mathematician, computer scientist and cancer researcher.

Mike F. Cowlishaw is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

David J. "Dave" Farber (born April 17, 1934) is a professor of computer science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking.

David Luckham is an emeritus professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.

James George "Jim" Mitchell (born 25 April 1943) is a Canadian computer scientist.