Below is an image of Ada Lovelace, born in 1815 (Died: 1852). She worked with Charles Babbage and is known as the first programmer.
Below is an image of Charles Babbage, born in 1791 (Died: 1871). Babbage is considered the father of the computer.
1840
1850
Below is an image of Grace Hopper, born in 1906 (Died: 1992). She invented the first compiler and contributed to the COBOL language.
Below is an image of Dennis Ritchie, born in 1941 (Died: 2011). He created the C programming language (1972) and helped develop Unix.
1950
1978
Below is an image of Guido Van Rossum, born in 1956. He helped to create the Python language in 1991.
Below is an image of Yukihiro Matsumoto, born in 1965. He developed Ruby, which was first available in 1995.
1991
1995
Below is an image of Robert Griesemer. He was on the Google team that developed GOLANG, which first appeared in 2009.
Below is an image of Chris Lattner, a developer at Apple. He helped to write Swift, which first appeared in 2014.
2010
2014