Choose the legend you admire most. The criteria is pure technical skill, not fame or wealth.
I would have added Ryan Dahl to the list.
Lol. No.
Elon Musk
Ahahahahaha
Many very prolific programmers who have had outsized impact, are not famous/well known like the ones in the list.
Why isn't Timnit Gebru on the list?
Dave Cutler
Why's the list so full of white people? 😂
Some brown people with 'famous' algorithms named after them. Lov Grover S Rao Kosaraju Narendra Karmarkar "Karmarkar's algorithm - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmarkar's_algorithm "Famous Computer Scientists from India | List of Top Indian Computer Scientists" https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-computer-scientists-from-india/reference Sabeer Bhatia
I think you're missing the premise. Computer theorists are different from programers. Turing or Dijkstra won't make the list either, right?
But what Ada doing here then? :)
Neal Wu
Add a comment if you know another name who deserves to be nominated above all whom I have mentioned.