Hacker computer pioneers

Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Hacker. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.

	Alan Kotok Computer scientist, hacker, and developer. Category: Hacker and Scientist
	Albert Gonzalez Computer hacker and computer criminal. Category: Hacker
	Alexey Ivanov Russian computer programmer and hacker. Category: Convict, Hacker, and Programmer
	Alex Holden Ukrainian IT researcher who found 1.2 billion stolen passwords. Category: Hacker and Researcher
	Bernd Fix German Hacker known for his Computer virus research. Category: Hacker and Writer
	Bill Gosper American mathematician and programmer and one of the founders of the hacker community along with Richard Greenblatt. Category: Founder, Hacker, Mathematician, and Programmer
	Bram Cohen Author of the P2P BitTorrent protocol. Category: Founder, Hacker, Programmer, and Writer
	Carolyn Meinel American hacker and author and specialist in script kiddie hacking. Category: Female, Founder, Hacker, Twitter, and Writer
	Chad Davis American hacker/cracker and founding member of the globalHell syndicate of hackers. Category: Founder and Hacker
	Charles Thacker American Pioneer computer designer who worked as the project leader of the Xerox Alto. Category: Founder, Hacker, and Inventor
	Craig Neidorf American hacker and founding editor of Phrack Magazine. Category: Convict, Editor, Founder, and Hacker
	David Hansson Danish computer programmer and creator of Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. Category: Hacker, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer
	David Litchfield British computer security expert, database authority and author. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Hacker, Twitter, and Writer
	Dimitry Golubov Ukrainian hacker and founder of the Internet Party of Ukraine. Category: Convict, Founder, Hacker, and Twitter
	Eric Raymond American computer programmer, author, and open source software advocate. Category: Hacker, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer
	Gary Mckinnon Scottish system administrator and hacker. Category: Hacker
	Gina Trapani American web developer, tech blogger, and writer known as the founder of the Lifehacker Blog. Category: Female, Founder, Hacker, Personality, and Writer
	Guy Steele Often referred to as "The Great Quux". Category: Hacker, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer
	Hector Monsegur American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec, turned FBI informant. Category: Founder and Hacker
	Jack Dennis Computer scientist and retired MIT professor who help develop the Multics project. Category: Founder, Hacker, Professor, Scientist, and sponsor
	Jan Koum American computer engineer and internet entrepreneur and co-founder of WhatsApp. Category: CEO, Director, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Hacker, and Twitter
	Jeri Ellsworth American self-taught computer chip designer and entrepreneur. Category: Entrepreneur, Female, and Hacker
	John Markoff New York Times Journalist and Author of Takedown book about Kevin Mitnick. Category: Editor, Hacker, Twitter, and Writer
	John Walker Inc as well as Co-author of AutoCAD. Category: Founder, Hacker, Programmer, and Writer
	Julian Assange Editor, activist, computer programmer, and hacker best known as the founder of WikiLeaks. Category: Editor, Founder, Hacker, Inventor, Personality, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer
	Kevin Mitnick Computer security consultant, author, and hacker. Category: Convict, Hacker, Personality, Twitter, and Writer
	Kevin Poulsen Former black hat hacker known for his telephone takeover hack to win a Porsche 944 S2 car. Category: Editor, Hacker, Twitter, and Writer
	Kim Dotcom German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur also known as Kimble Category: Convict, Entrepreneur, Founder, and Hacker
	Linus Torvalds Original developer of Linux. Category: Hacker and Writer
	Maksym Yastremski Ukrainian hacker and top online seller of stolen credit card information. Category: Convict and Hacker
	Mark Abene Infosec expert, computer programmer, cryptographer, and hacker. Category: Convict, Founder, Hacker, and Programmer
	Max Vision Former computer security consultant and convicted online hacker. Category: Hacker
	Michael Calce Canadian computer hacker known for creating denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) at age 15. Category: Convict, Hacker, and Writer
	Michael Muuss Author of the freeware network tool ping which has been implemented on a large number of operating systems Category: Hacker, Scientist, and Writer
	Paul Graham Venture capitalist, and essayist Known for his work on Lisp (a family of computer programming languages). Category: Founder, Hacker, Investor, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer
	Renukanth Subramaniam British Hacker and founder of DarkMarket, internet cybercrime forum. Category: Convict, Founder, and Hacker
	Richard Greenblatt American computer programmer and one of the founders of the hacker community along with Bill Gosper. Category: Founder, Hacker, and Programmer
	Stewart Brand American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. Category: Editor, Founder, Hacker, Inventor, and Writer
	Vasily Gorshkov Russian Computer programmer and hacker. Category: Hacker and Programmer
	Vladimir Levin Russian-born Jewish computer programmer and hacker. Category: Hacker and Programmer
	Werner Koch German free software activist known as the author of the GNU Privacy Guard. Category: Hacker and Writer