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- John Morgan (1913)
- Andrew Carnegie (1919)
- Thomas Edison (1931)
- John Rockefeller (1937)
- Henry Ford (1947)
- Walt Disney (1966)
- Steve Jobs (2011)
- Larry Page
- Elon Musk
- Bill Gates
- Jeff Bezos
- Jack Ma
- Adam Smith (1790)
- Karl Marx (1883)
- Leon Walras (1910)
- Max Weber (1920)
- John Keynes (1946)
- Friedrich Hayek (1992)
- Milton Friedman (2006)
- Paul Samuelson (2009)
- Johannes Gutenberg (1468)
- Robert Fulton (1815)
- James Watt (1819)
- Eli Whitney (1825)
- Samuel Morse (1872)
- Wright brothers (1948) - Designed, built and flew the first controlled, powered, heavier than air airplane in 1903.
- Rudolf Diesel (1913)
- Alexander Bell (1922)
- Karl Benz (1929)
- George Eastman (1932)
- George Carver (1943)
- John Baird (1946)
- Hedy Lamarr (2000)
- Vint Cerf
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Douglas Engelbart
- Herodotus (425 BC)
- Xenophon (354 BC)
- Edward Gibbon (1794)
- Alan Taylor (1990)
- Arthur Schlesinger (2007)
- Jules Verne (1905)
- Howard Lovecraft (1937)
- Herbert Wells (1946)
- Philip Dick (1982)
- Robert Heinlein (1988)
- Isaac Asimov (1992)
- Douglas Adams (2001)
- Stanislaw Lem (2006)
- Arthur Clarke (2008)
- Ursula Le Guin
- Dan Simmons
- Stephen King
- Ted Chiang
- Hippocrates (370 BC)
- Aelius Galen (210)
- Andreas Vesalius (1564)
- William Harvey (1657)
- James Parkinson (1824)
- Rudolf Virchow (1902)
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1910)
- Charles Drew (1950)
- Alfred Blalock (1964)
- Virginia Apgar (1974)
- Jonas Salk (1995)
- William Shakespeare (1616)
- John Milton (1674)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1881)
- Oscar Wilde (1900)
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1940)
- Mark Twain (1910)
- Leo Tolstoy (1910)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1930)
- Eric Arthur Blair (1950) - Known by his pen name ‘George Orwell’.
- Dale Carnegie (1955)
- Hermann Hesse (1962)
- Aldous Huxley (1963)
- John Tolkien (1973)
- Agatha Christie (1976)
- Anais Nin (1977)
- Jorge Borges (1986)
- Kurt Vonnegut (2007)
- Paul Graham
- Antoni Gaudí (1926)
- Frank Wright (1959)
- Charles Jeanneret (1965)
- Ludwig van der Rohe (1969)
- Louis Kahn (1974)
- Philip Johnson (2005)
- Tadao Ando
- Renzo Piano
- Frank Gehry
- Johann Bach (1750)
- Wolfgang Mozart (1791)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1827)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1908)
- Jimi Hendrix (1970)
- Igor Stravinsky (1971)
- John Lennon (1980)
- Irving Berlin (1989)
- Jun Seba (2010) - Stage name: Nujabes.
- Paul McCartney
- Jon Hopkins
- Kevin Parker - Band: Tame Impala.
- Justin Vernon - Band: Bon Iver.
- Marcos Ortega - Stage name: Lorn.
- Douglas Appling - Stage name: Emancipator
- Jason Chung - stage name: Nosaj Thing.
- Nicolas Jaar
- Chazwick Bundick - Stage name: Tory Y Moi.
- Henry Laufer - Stage name: Shlohmo.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1519)
- Michelangelo (1564)
- Rembrandt (1669)
- Vincent van Gogh (1890)
- Gustav Klimt (1918)
- Claude Monet (1926)
- Jackson Pollock (1956)
- M. C. Escher (1972)
- Pablo Picasso (1973)
- Andy Warhol (1987)
- Salvador Dali (1989)
- James Eads
- Ivan Pavlov (1936)
- Sigmund Freud (1939)
- Abraham Maslow (1970)
- Jean Piaget (1980) - Known for his pioneering work in child development.
- Carl Rogers (1987)
- Burrhus Skinner (1990)
- Carl Linnaeus (1778)
- Louis Agassiz (1873)
- Charles Darwin (1882)
- Louis Pasteur (1895)
- Alfred Wallace (1913)
- Alexander Fleming (1955)
- Rachel Carson (1964)
- Stephen Gould (2002)
- Maurice Hilleman (2005)
- James Watson
- David Baltimore
- Margaret Hamilton (1936)
- Alan Turing (1954)
- Konrad Zuse (1995)
- John von Neumann (1957)
- Alan Perlis (1990)
- Edsger Dijkstra (2002)
- Edgar Codd (2003)
- Donald Knuth
- Tony Hoare - Developed QuickSort algorithm.
- Carl Sassenrath
- Stephen Cook
- Leslie Lamport
- Antoine Lavoisier (1794)
- Robert Boyle (1691)
- Humphry Davy (1829)
- John Dalton (1844)
- Alfred Nobel (1896)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (1907)
- Svante Arrhenius (1927)
- Michael Faraday (1867)
- Marie Curie (1934)
- Fritz Haber (1934)
- Linus Pauling (1944)
- Rosalind Franklin (1958)
- Alexander Shulgin (2014)
- Stephanie Kwolek (2014)
- Aafia Siddiqui
- Christof Koch
- Sam Harris
- David Eagleman
- Antonio Damasio
- Daniel Levitin
- Robert Sapolsky
- Henry Markram
- Paul Greengard
- Diane Arbus (1971)
- Robert Capa (1954)
- Edward Weston (1958)
- Ansel Adams (1984)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (2004)
- Richard Avedon (2004)
- John Backus (2007)
- Dennis Ritchie (2011) - Helped design C language.
- James Gosling - Designed Java language.
- Martin Richards - Developed BCPL programming language.
- Niklaus Wirth - Designed several languages including Pascal.
- Xavier Leroy - Primary developer of the OCaml system.
- Alan Kay - Helped design Smalltalk language.
- Anders Hejlsberg - Designed Turbo Pascal and Delphi languages and works as lead architect of C+ and core developer of TypeScript.
- Rob Pike - Helped design Go language.
- Ken Thompson - Designed C language.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto - Designed ruby language.
- Larry Wall - Designed Perl language.
- Guido van Rossum - Designed Python language.
- Rasmus Lerdorf - Designed PHP language.
- Bjarne Stroustrup - Designed C++ language.
- Brendan Eich - Designed Javascript language.
- Rich Hickey - Designed Clojure language.
- Jose Valim - Designed elixir language.
- Chris Lattner - Designed Swift language.
- Herbert Simon (2001)
- John McCarthy (2011)
- Marvin Minsky (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton - Was one of the first researchers who demonstrated the use of generalised back propagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural nets.
- Demis Hassabis
- Zoubin Ghahramani
- Confucius (479 BC)
- Socrates (399 BC)
- Diogenes (323 BC)
- Plato (147 BC)
- Epictetus (135)
- Thomas Aquinas (1274)
- Francis Bacon (1626)
- Thomas Hobbes (1679) - Proposed that reasoning was like numerical computation, that “we add and subtract in our silent thoughts”.
- John Locke (1704)
- David Hume (1776)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778)
- Immanuel Kant (1804)
- William Thompson (1833)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1855)
- Auguste Comte (1857)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1860)
- John Mill (1873)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1900)
- Edmund Husserl (1938)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1951)
- John Dewey (1952)
- Albert Camus (1960)
- Manly Hall (1990)
- Karl Popper (1994)
- Peter Singer
- Larry Tesler - Pioneered cut, copy, paste action.
- Thales of Miletus (546 BC)
- Pythagoras (495 BC) - Invented the famous Pythagoras’s Theorem.
- Aristotle (322 BC)
- Euclid (300 BC) - Mathematical treatment of “preferred outcomes” or utility was first finalised by him, gave the basis for modern proof-based mathematics.
- Archimedes (212 BC) - Used a lot of advanced methods (something like infinitesimal calculus) which he used to derive the formulas for computing the volume of cones and other solids of revolution, he also used similar methods to investigate the properties of conics.
- Eratosthenes (194 BC) - Known for the Sieve of Eratosthenes, which is a method of finding prime numbers.
- Diophantus (299) - Was interested in properties of integers.
- Madhava of Sangamagrama (1425)
- Gerolamo Cardano (1576) - First framed the idea of probability, describing it in terms of the possible outcomes of gambling events.
- John Napier (1617) - Invented logarithms.
- Pierre Fermat (1655)
- Jacob Bernoulli (1705)
- Rene Descartes (1650) - Gave the first clear discussion of the distinction between mind and matter and of the problems that arise.
- Blaise Pascal (1662) - Built a famous calculating machine.
- Gottfried Leibniz (1716) - Built a mechanical device intended to carry out operations on concepts rather than numbers.
- Thomas Bayes (1761) - Proposed a rule for updating probabilities in light of new evidence.
- Johann Lambert (1777) - Invented Wave Equation.
- Leonhard Euler (1783) - Invented The Square Root of Minus One, Euler’s Formula for Polyhedra.
- Joseph Lagrande (1813)
- Pierre Laplace (1827) - Advanced the theory and introduced new statistical methods.
- Niels Abel (1829)
- Joseph Fourier (1830) - Invented Fourier Transform.
- Évariste Galois (1832)
- Adrien Legendre (1833)
- Carl Jacobi (1851)
- Ada Lovelace (1852)
- Carl Gauss (1855) - Invented Normal Distribution.
- Augustin Louis Cauchy (1857)
- Peter Dirichlet (1859)
- George Boole (1864) - Worked out the details of propositional, or Boolean logic.
- Bernhard Riemann (1866)
- Charles Babbage (1871)
- Karl Weierstass (1897)
- Henri Poincaré (1912)
- Georg Cantor (1918)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1920)
- Andrey Markov (1922)
- Gottlob Frege (1925) - Extended Boole’s logic to include objects and relations, creating the first-order logic that is used today.
- Frank Ramsey (1930)
- Amalie Noether (1935)
- David Hilbert (1943)
- Stefan Banach (1945)
- Godfrey Hardy (1947)
- Charles Vallee-Pussin (1962)
- Norbert Wiener (1964)
- Bertrand Russel (1970)
- John Littlewood (1977)
- Kurt Godel (1978)
- Haskell Curry (1982)
- Alfred Tarski (1983) - Introduced a theory of reference that shows how to relate the objects in logic to objects in the real world.
- Stephen Kleene (1994)
- Alonzo Church (1995)
- Paul Erdős (1996)
- Claude Shannon (2001) - Invented Information Theory.
- Alexander Grothendieck (2014)
- John Nash (2015)
- Jean Serre
- Cédric Villani
- Shinichi Mochizuki
- Peter Scholze
- Grigori Perelman
- Andrew Wiles
- John Conway
- Terrence Tao
- Stephen Smale
- Andrew Granville
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)
- Galileo Galilei (1642)
- Robert Hooke (1703)
- Isaac Newton (1726) - Invented Calculus and Law of Gravity.
- James Maxwell (1879) - Invented Maxwell’s equations.
- Heinrich Hertz (1894) - First person to transmit and receive radio waves.
- Ludwig Boltzmann (1906) - Invented Schrodinger’s Equation.
- Pierre Curie (1906)
- Ernest Rutherford (1937)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1937)
- Joseph Thompson (1940)
- Nikola Tesla (1943)
- Max Planck (1947)
- Arnold Sommerfeld (1951)
- Enrico Fermi (1954)
- Albert Einstein (1955)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1958)
- Erwin Schrödinger (1961)
- Niels Bohr (1962)
- Julius Oppenheimer (1967)
- Max Born (1970)
- James Chadwick (1974)
- Satyendra Bose (1974)
- Werner Heisenberg (1976)
- John Mauchly (1980)
- Paul Dirac (1984)
- Louis de Broglie (1987)
- Richard Feynman (1988)
- John Bell (1990)
- John Bardeen (1991)
- Eugene Wigner (1995)
- Roger Penrose
- Stephen Hawking
- Anton Zeilinger
- Gautama Buddha (400 BC) - Was the man who started Buddhism.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1948)
- Ramana Maharshi (1950)
- Sri Aurobindo (1950)
- Alan Watts (1973)
- Nisargadatta Maharaj (1981)
- Paul Brunton (1981)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1986)
- Timothy Leary (1996)
- Terrence McKenna (2000)
- Graham Hancock
- Stanislav Grof
- Jesus Christ (30)
- Hammurabi (1750 BC)
- Hatshepsut (1458 BC)
- Ramesses II (1231 BC)
- Alexander the Great (323 BC)
- Julius Caesar (44 BC)
- Augustus (14)
- Charlemagne (814)
- Genghis Khan (1227)
- Joan of Arc (1431)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (1566)
- Catherine the Great (1796)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1821)
- Thomas Jefferson (1826)
- Abraham Lincoln (1865)
- Vladimir Lenin (1924)
- Mustafa Ataturk (1938)
- Adolf Hitler (1945)
- Franklin Roosevelt (1945)
- Joseph Stalin (1953)
- John Kennedy (1963)
- Winston Churchill (1965)
- Mao Zedong (1976)
- Nelson Mandela (2013)
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Vladimir Putin
- Angela Merkel
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