Various people relevant to the material we're studying

• Alonzo Church
• Alan Turing
• Haskell Curry
• John McCarthy
• Gerald Sussman and Guy Steele
• Dana Scott
• Nicolaas de Bruijn
• Gordon Plotkin

Other people important to computer science, but less directly to us

• Charles Babbage
• Ada Lovelace
• John von Neumann
• Edsger Dijkstra
• Dennis Ritchie
• Donald Knuth