People You Should Know (PYSK)

This is a list I’ve compiled of people who I think were influential to humanity, and are people you should know about. Why you should know about them is up to you to decide. This list is in no particular order.

• Rob Muhlestein
• Alan Turing
• Ken Thompson
• Dennis Ritchie
• Douglas McIlroy
• John McCarthy
• Linus Torvalds
• John Carmack
• Isaac Asimov
• Joseph Marie Jacquard
• Nikola Tesla
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thales of Miletus
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Confucious
• Euclid
• Euler
• Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Isaac Newton
• Rob Pike
• Robert Griesemer
• Daniel Stenberg
• Niklas Luhmann
• Aaron Swartz
• Fabrice Bellard
• Alessandro Volta
• Joseph Henry
• William Sturgeon
• Samuel Morse
• Joseph John Thomson
• Michael Faraday
• Isaac Newton
• Charles Babbage
• Ada, Countess of Lovelace
• James Clerk Maxwell
• Cyrus West Field
• William Thomson
• Heinrich Hertz
• Guglielmo Marconi
• David Sarnoff
• Robert Watson-Watt
• James Watt
• Arnold Wilkins
• David Hilbert
• John Von Neumann
• Joan Clarke
• Charles Darwin
• Russel Ohl
• Walter Brattain
• John Bardeen
• Grace Murray Hopper
• Robert Noyce
• Gordon Moore
• William Harvey
• Mary Shelley
• Alan Hodgkin
• Otto Loewi
• Nancy Ostrowski
• David Hume
• Joseph Priestley
• Henri Becquerel
• Marie Curie
• Andre-Marie Ampere

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