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+## Various people relevant to the material we're studying ##
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+* [Alonzo Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church)
+* [Alan Turing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing)
+* [Haskell Curry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry)
+* [John McCarthy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scientist%29) <!-- "AI", Lisp -->
+* [Gerald Jay Sussman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Jay_Sussman) <!-- Scheme, SICP -->
+* [Edsger Dijkstra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra)
+* [Gordon Plotkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Plotkin)
+
+## Other people important to computer science, but less directly to us ##
+
+* [Charles Babbage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage)
+* [Ada Lovelace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace)
+* [John von Neumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann)
+* [Dennis Ritchie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie)
+* [Donald Knuth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth)