Top IT guys in history
For every world-famous name with a world famous fortune, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell, there are hundreds of other individuals who have moved the IT industry and its technology inexorably forward.
50 Most Influential & Important Individuals on the Internet
1.Michael Arrington – Blogger/publisher, TechCrunch.com
2.Steve Ballmer – CEO, Microsoft Inc
3.Jeff Bezos – Chairman and CEO, Amazon.com
4.Sergey Brin – President and Co-Founder, Larry Page – Co-Founder, and Eric Schmidt – Chairman and CEO, Google Inc
5.Dries Buytaert – Founder and Lead, Drupal.org
6.Pete Cashmore – founder, Mashable.com
7.Jean-Francois Clavier – Founder and Managing Partner, Softtechvc.com
8.Bram Cohen – Cofounder, BitTorrent Protocol
9.Drew Curtis – Founder, Fark.com
10.Nick Denton – Founder, Gawker Media
full list via bspcn
Top 10 greatest IT people
Top 10 greatest IT people
1. Steve Jobs
2. Tim Berners-Lee
3. Bill Gates
4. James Gosling
5. Linus Torvalds
6. Richard Stallman
7. Arthur C Clark
8. Ted Codd
9. Steve Shirley
10. Martha Lane Fox
via computerweekly