Hackers of the 1930s

Alexander Brudno

Russian computer scientist (1918–2009)

1918 – 2009 · Israel

Alexey Ivakhnenko

Soviet–Ukrainian mathematician and computer scientist

1913 – 2007

Andrew Donald Booth

British computer scientist (1918–2009)

1918 – 2009 · United Kingdom

Arthur Levenson

American cryptographer (1914–2007)

1914 – 2007 · United States

Bernard Meltzer (computer scientist)

British computer scientist

1916 – 2008

Ci Yungui

Chinese scientist

1917 – 1990 · China

Claude Shannon

American mathematician (1916–2001)

1916 – 2001 · United States

Clifford Berry

American computer scientist (1918–1963)

1918 – 1963 · United States

Cyril Cleverdon

British librarian and computer scientist

1914 – 1997 · United Kingdom

David Shulman

American lexicographer and cryptographer

1912 – 2004 · United States

Heinz Billing

German physicist (1914–2017)

1914 – 2017 · Germany

Henriette Avram

American computer programmer and system analyst

1919 – 2006 · United States

Horst Feistel

German-American cryptographer (1915 - 1990)

1915 – 1990 · Germany

I. J. Good

British statistician and cryptographer (1916–2009)

1916 – 2009 · United Kingdom

J. C. R. Licklider

American psychologist and computer scientist (1915-1990)

1915 – 1990 · United States

Jean Kuntzmann

French mathematician (1912–1992)

1912 – 1992 · France

Jeffrey Chuan Chu

Computer scientist (1919–2011)

1919 – 2011 · United States

Joel Barr

American spy for the Soviet Union

1916 – 1998 · United States

Julian Bigelow

American computer engineer (1913–2003)

1913 – 2003 · United States

Richard Bolt

American physics professor (1911–2002)

1911 – 2002 · United States

Richard Buckingham

1911 – 1994 · United Kingdom

Richard Leibler

American mathematician and cryptanalyst (1914 - 2003)

1914 – 2003 · United States

Richard V. Andree

American mathematician and computer scientist (1919–1987)

1919 – 1987 · United States

Robert Fano

Italian-American computer scientist

1917 – 2016 · United States

Samuel N. Alexander

American computer scientist

1910 – 1967 · United States

Wilfried de Beauclair

Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist (1912–2020)

1912 – 2020 · Germany

Winifred Asprey

American computer scientist and mathematician

1917 – 2007 · United States

Władysław Matwin

1916 – 2012 · Poland