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| Name | Votes | % |
| Peter Norvig | 40% | |
| John Carmack | 37% | |
| Guy Steele | 36% | |
| Donald Knuth | 35% | |
| Alan Kay | 34% | |
| Linus Torvalds | 25% | |
| Yukihiro Matsumoto | 24% | |
| Gerald Jay Sussman | 24% | |
| Jamie Zawinski | 24% | |
| Guido van Rossum | 23% | |
| Paul Graham | 23% | |
| Dennis Ritchie | 19% | |
| John McCarthy | 19% | |
| Joe Armstrong | 18% | |
| Why the lucky stiff | 18% | |
| Larry Wall | 18% | |
| Bill Joy | 17% | |
| Steve Yegge | 17% | |
| Miguel de Icaza | 17% | |
| Robert Morris | 17% | |
| Theo de Raadt | 16% | |
| Brian Kernighan | 16% | |
| Alan Cox | 16% | |
| Richard Stallman | 16% | |
| Steve Wozniak | 15% | |
| Ken Thompson | 14% | |
| Bjarne Stroustrup | 13% | |
| David Heinemeier Hansson | 13% | |
| Ward Cunningham | 13% | |
| Simon Peyton Jones | 12% | |
| Bram Cohen | 12% | |
| Douglas Engelbart | 12% | |
| Edi Weitz | 12% | |
| Bruce Schneier | 12% | |
| Andrew Tridgell | 12% | |
| Chuck Moore | 11% | |
| Tim Sweeney | 11% | |
| Andrew Tanenbaum | 11% | |
| Stephen Wolfram | 11% | |
| Brad Fitzpatrick | 11% | |
| Brendan Eich | 11% | |
| Dan Bernstein | 11% | |
| Andy Gavin | 11% | |
| Fabrice Bellard | 11% | |
| Michael Abrash | 11% | |
| James Gosling | 11% | |
| Audrey Tang | 11% | |
| Hal Abelson | 11% | |
| Paul Buchheit | 10% | |
| Erik Naggum | 10% | |
| Charles Simonyi | 10% | |
| Philip Greenspun | 10% | |
| Rob Pike | 10% | |
| Wil Shipley | 10% | |
| Andy Hertzfeld | 10% | |
| Martin Fowler | 9% | |
| Anders Hejlsberg | 9% | |
| Marvin Minsky | 9% | |
| Bill Gates | 9% | |
| Frances Allen | 9% | |
| Justin Frankel | 9% | |
| Bill Gosper | 9% | |
| Sergey Brin | 9% | |
| Raymond Chen | 9% | |
| Zed Shaw | 8% | |
| Aaron Swartz | 8% | |
| Whitfield Diffie | 8% | |
| Richard Gabriel | 8% | |
| L. Peter Deutsch | 8% | |
| Alexander Stepanov | 8% | |
| Larry Page | 8% | |
| Matt Dillon | 8% | |
| Gregor Kiczales | 7% | |
| Bill Atkinson | 7% | |
| Marc Andreessen | 7% | |
| Douglas McIlroy | 7% | |
| Josh Bloch | 6% | |
| Dan Ingalls | 6% | |
| Douglas Crockford | 6% | |
| Leslie Lamport | 6% | |
| Mark Pilgrim | 6% | |
| David Cutler | 6% | |
| Van Jacobson | 6% | |
| Xavier Leroy | 6% | |
| Olin Shivers | 6% | |
| Danny Hillis | 6% | |
| Vinton Cerf | 6% | |
| Bruce Momjian | 6% | |
| Brad Cox | 6% | |
| Trevor Blackwell | 6% | |
| Alex Martelli | 6% | |
| Allison Randal | 6% | |
| Kent Beck | 6% | |
| Roy Fielding | 5% | |
| Jonathan Rees | 5% | |
| Henry Baker | 5% | |
| Tom Lane | 5% | |
| Ivan Sutherland | 5% | |
| Bertrand Meyer | 5% | |
| Niklaus Wirth | 5% | |
| Richard Greenblatt | 5% | |
| Bruce Eckel | 5% | |
| Mark Shuttleworth | 5% | |
| Jon Bentley | 5% | |
| Ingo Molnár | 5% | |
| Alain Colmerauer | 5% | |
| Adrian Holovaty | 5% | |
| Philip Wadler | 5% | |
| Kent Pitman | 4% | |
| Richard Hipp | 4% | |
| Jeff Rubin | 4% | |
| Tom Duff | 4% | |
| Damian Conway | 4% | |
| Dave Fox | 4% | |
| Edward Feigenbaum | 4% | |
| Ola Bini | 4% | |
| Jarkko Oikarinen | 4% | |
| Bram Moolenaar | 4% | |
| Marco Baringer | 4% | |
| Luke Gorrie | 4% | |
| John Foderaro | 4% | |
| Don Stewart | 4% | |
| Elizabeth Rather | 4% | |
| Charles Nutter | 4% | |
| Ka-Ping Yee | 4% | |
| Rasmus Lerdorf | 4% | |
| Marshall Kirk McKusick | 4% | |
| Tim Peters | 4% | |
| Jeff Dean | 4% | |
| Roberto Ierusalimschy | 3% | |
| Erich Gamma | 3% | |
| P.J. Plauger | 3% | |
| Alvy Ray Smith | 3% | |
| Ellen Spertus | 3% | |
| Michael Feathers | 3% | |
| Wietse Venema | 3% | |
| James Duncan Davidson | 3% | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | 3% | |
| Steve Russell | 3% | |
| Urs Hölzle | 3% | |
| Jim Hugunin | 3% | |
| Paul Allen | 3% | |
| Tom Lord | 3% | |
| Ralph Johnson | 3% | |
| Henry Spencer | 3% | |
| Amy Fowler | 3% | |
| Gavin King | 3% | |
| Mitchell Kapor | 3% | |
| Dan Farmer | 3% | |
| Graham Nelson | 3% | |
| Mark Zuckerberg | 3% | |
| Janus Friis | 3% | |
| Don Hopkins | 3% | |
| Eric Meijer | 3% | |
| John Ousterhout | 3% | |
| Paul Vixie | 2% | |
| Udi Manber | 2% | |
| Scott McKay | 2% | |
| Keith Packard | 2% | |
| Brian Behlendorf | 2% | |
| Richard Kelsey | 2% | |
| Nick Bradbury | 2% | |
| Carla Schroder | 2% | |
| Rick Olsen | 2% | |
| Dan Bricklin | 2% | |
| John Gilmore | 2% | |
| Butler Lampson | 2% | |
| Zack Rusin | 2% | |
| Joe Marshall | 2% | |
| Donald Chamberlin | 2% | |
| Russ Cox | 2% | |
| David Korn | 2% | |
| Roger Hui | 2% | |
| Richard Karp | 2% | |
| Martin Odersky | 2% | |
| Andrew Hunt | 2% | |
| Robert Martin | 2% | |
| Ray Ozzie | 2% | |
| Scott Meyers | 2% | |
| Dave Thomas | 2% | |
| Avi Bryant | 2% | |
| Larry Osterman | 2% | |
| Evan Phoenix | 2% | |
| Ray Tomlinson | 2% | |
| Steve Dekorte | 2% | |
| Adele Goldberg | 2% | |
| Chris Wanstrath | 2% | |
| Paul 'Rusty' Russell | 2% | |
| Jim Blinn | 2% | |
| Peter Van Roy | 2% | |
| Matt Mackall | 2% | |
| Craig McClanahan | 2% | |
| Niklas Zennstrom | 2% | |
| Gavin Schmidt | 2% | |
| Barry Boehem | 2% | |
| Will Crowther | 2% | |
| Jacob Kaplan-Moss | 2% | |
| John Mashey | 2% | |
| Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen | 2% | |
| Keith Bostic | 1% | |
| Dan Geer | 1% | |
| Neil Hodgson | 1% | |
| Austin Meyer | 1% | |
| Brian Harvey | 1% | |
| Paul Haeberli | 1% | |
| Ilya Zakharevich | 1% | |
| Stefan Meyer-Kahlen | 1% | |
| Dominic Giampaolo | 1% | |
| Rob McCool | 1% | |
| Radia Perlman | 1% | |
| Alessandro Rubini | 1% | |
| Marcus Ranum | 1% | |
| Eric Allman | 1% | |
| Wouter van Oortmerssen | 1% | |
| Arthur Whitney | 1% | |
| Thomas Enebo | 1% | |
| Dan Piponi | 1% | |
| Peter Weinberger | 1% | |
| Richard Helm | 1% | |
| Doug Lea | 1% | |
| Guillaume Laforge | 1% | |
| Charles Hedrick | 1% | |
| Bob Scheifler | 1% | |
| Mark Jason Dominus | 1% | |
| John Vlissides | 1% | |
| Dan Sugalski | 1% | |
| Sape Mullender | 1% | |
| Salvatore Sanfilippo | 1% | |
| Rod Johnson | 1% | |
| Mathias Feist | 1% | |
| Chris Torek | 1% | |
| Sam Leffler | 1% | |
| Munjal Shah | 1% | |
| Mike Karels | 1% | |
| Jeff Mogul | 1% | |
| Thomas Knoll | 1% | |
| Eric Bina | 1% | |
| Matthew Ahrens | 1% | |
| Richard Fateman | 1% | |
| Simon Willison | 1% | |
| Rob Barnaby | 0% | |
| Frans Morsch | 0% | |
| John Harper | 0% | |
| Peter Karp | 0% | |
| John Socha | 0% | |
| Mark Maybee | 0% | |
| Spencer Janssen | 0% | |
| Graeme Rocher | 0% | |
| Erik Benson | 0% | |
| Graham Spencer | 0% | |
| Peter Norton | 0% | |
| Mark Fletcher | 0% | |
| Paul Mackerras | 0% | |
| Greg Linden | 0% | |
| Evan Williams | 0% | |
| Joshua Bloch | 0% | |
| Val Henson | 0% | |
| Dick Wall | 0% | |
| Spencer Kimball | 0% | |
| Peter Mattis | 0% | |
| Dennis Crawley | 0% | |
| Shay Bushinsky | 0% | |
| Rainer Joswig | 0% | |
| Bernie Cosell | 0% | |
| Jeff Bonwick | 0% | |
| Joel Reymont | 0% | |
| Jon Kleinberg | 0% | |
| Dierk Koenig. | 0% | |
| Max Levchin | 0% | |
| Joel Spolsky | 0% | |
| Peter-Paul Koch | 0% | |
| Amir Ban | 0% | |
| Eric Swildens | 0% | |
| Watts Humphrey | 0% | |
| Biz Stone | 0% | |
| Rusty Bobrow | 0% | |
| Frank Heart | 0% | |
| Robert Thau | 0% | |
| Chrilly Donninger | 0% | |
| Sam Stephenson | 0% | |
| Dan Weinreb | 0% | |
| Michael C. Schatz | 0% | |
| Simon Tatham | 0% | |
| Naval Ravikanth | 0% | |
| Alex Russell | 0% |