Jony Ive
1967 
London [United Kingdom]
The English industrial designer was hired by Apple to design its new laptop in September 1992, following Steve Jobs' return to the company.
He was responsible for the design of the iMac, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and parts of the iOS user interface.
Contemporary computing celebrities to Jony Ive
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Jeff Minter
1962
Reading [United Kingdom]
Jeff Minter (often called Yak) is an English video game designer and programmer, founder of the software company Llamasoft, and has created dozens of games throughout his career, which began in 1981 with games for the ZX80.
Minter's games are shoot 'em ups that contain references in the title or gameplay that demonstrate his fondness for ruminants (llamas, sheep, camels, etc.).
Many of his programs also contain psychedelic elements, as in some of the early "light synthesizer" programs, such as Trip-a-Tron.
Minter's works include the music visualization program Neon (2004), integrated into the Xbox 360 console, and the video games Gridrunner, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Tempest 2000, and Polybius. -
Kevin Mitnick
1963
Van Nuys [USA]
The most famous hacker of all time.
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Martin Galway
1966
Belfast [United Kingdom]
He is one of the most famous and prestigious composers of music for the Commodore 64's SID sound chip.
His best-known works include Arkanoid, Wizball, and Green Beret, as well as numerous melodies used during game loading, such as those developed by Ocean Software. -
Linus Torvalds
1969
Helsinki [Finland]
He is a Finnish software engineer, pioneer programmer and creator of the Linux Kernel in 1991.
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Marc Andreessen
1971
Cedar Falls [USA]
Co-author of Mosaic, one of the first web browsers with a graphical interface. And co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation.
