Find out more about the greatest British Computer Scientists, including Alan Turing, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Shuttleworth, Kevin Warwick and Stephen Wolfram.
Alan Turing23 June 1912
Mathematician
Tim Berners-Lee08 June 1955
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Stephen Wolfram29 August 1959
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist,
Mark Shuttleworth18 September 1973
Entrepreneur, Astronaut, Engineer, Inventor,
Geoffrey Hinton06 December 1947
Computer scientist
Tony Hoare11 January 1934
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer, Writer,
Michael Moritz12 September 1954
Computer scientist
Edgar F. Codd19 August 1923
Computer scientist, Mathematician, University
Steve Shirley16 September 1933
Computer scientist, Feminist
Kevin Warwick09 February 1954
Engineer, Writer, University teacher, Computer
Clive Sinclair30 July 1940
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor, Computer
Donald Davies07 June 1924
Computer Scientist
Tommy Flowers22 December 1905
Technician, Engineer, Computer scientist
Stuart J. Russell1962 AD
scientist, computer scientist, engineer,
Sophie Wilson1957 AD
computer scientist
Jeff Minter22 April 1962
Programmer, Engineer, Computer scientist
I. J. Good09 December 1916
Mathematician, Cryptographer, Computer scientist,
Steve Grand12 February 1958
Computer scientist
David J. C. MacKay22 April 1967
Physicist, Computer scientist, Professor
Alan Cox22 July 1968
Programmer, Blogger, Computer scientist
Maurice Wilkes26 June 1913
Computer scientist, Engineer, Physicist,
Leslie Valiant28 March 1949
Computer scientist
Robin Milner13 January 1934
Computer Scientist
Simon Peyton Jones18 January 1958
Computer scientist
Tom Kilburn11 August 1921
Computer scientist
Martin Fowler1963 AD
Software Developer
Roger Needham09 February 1935
Computer Scientist
C. A. R. Hoare11 January 1934
British computer scientist
Michael Fourman12 September 1950
Computer Scientist
David Wheeler09 February 1927
cryptographer, computer scientist
David Caminer26 June 1915
Computer Scientist
Chrisanthi Avgerou1954 AD
Computer scientist