Linus Torvalds (Creator of the Linux Kernel) - https://github.com/torvalds John Carmack (Co-founder of id Software) - https://github.com/ID_AA_Carmack Bjarne Stroustrup (Creator of C++) - https://github.com/BjarneStroustrup Fabrice Bellard (Creator of QEMU, FFMpeg, and Tiny C Compiler) - https://github.com/fbellard Andrei Alexandrescu (C++ expert and author) - https://github.com/incomputable Chandler Carruth (LLVM and Clang developer) - https://github.com/chandlerc Daniel Lemire (Computer science researcher, focuses on performance) - https://github.com/lemire P.J. Plauger - A renowned author, and contributor to the C Standard Library - https://github.com/pjplauger Peter J. Weinberger - Co-creator of AWK and a contributor to Unix - https://github.com/pjw Keith Packard - A prominent contributor to the X Window System, and the Linux graphics stack - https://github.com/keith-packard Rich Felker - Founder of the musl libc project, an alternative C library for Linux-based systems - https://github.com/richfelker Julia Evans - Systems programmer known for her work on C projects and educational materials - https://github.com/jvns Tony Finch - Author of several C projects, including the Knot DNS server and other infrastructure tools - https://github.com/fanf Sergey Bratus - A security researcher and expert in low-level programming, with a focus on C - https://github.com/sergeybratus Herb Sutter - A prominent C++ expert, author, and chair of the ISO C++ standards committee - https://github.com/hsutter Sean Parent - A software engineer at Adobe and C++ expert, known for his talks on C++ best practices - https://github.com/sean-parent Kate Gregory - A C++ expert, author, and Microsoft Regional Director - https://github.com/gregcons Eric Niebler - A C++ expert and author of the range-v3 library, which inspired C++20's ranges - https://github.com/ericniebler Jason Turner - A C++ expert and host of the C++ Weekly YouTube series - https://github.com/lefticus Titus Winters - A software engineer at Google and C++ expert, known for his work on the Google C++ Style Guide and Abseil - https://github.com/tituswinters Jonathan Boccara - A C++ expert and author of the book "The Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox" - https://github.com/joboccara Richard Stallman - Founder of the GNU project, which aims to create a complete, portable, and free Unix-like operating system - https://github.com/rms Samuel L. Miller - A core developer of the SQLite project, a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine - https://github.com/slmiller Frank Denis - Creator of the libsodium project, a modern, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing, and more - https://github.com/jedisct1 Michael Kerrisk - Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" and contributor to portable, multiplatform code in the Linux kernel and glibc - https://github.com/mtk-mirror Salvatore Sanfilippo - Creator of the Redis project, an open-source, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker - https://github.com/antirez Niels Provos - A security researcher and developer who has contributed to various projects, including libevent, a library that provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout - https://github.com/provos Alon Zakai - Creator of Emscripten, a compiler that allows developers to run C and C++ code on the web, using WebAssembly - https://github.com/kripken Brian W. Kernighan - Co-author of "The C Programming Language" and "The Practice of Programming" - https://github.com/bwk Dennis Ritchie - Creator of the C programming language and co-author of "The C Programming Language" - https://github.com/dmr (GitHub profile not available, as he passed away in 2011) Dan Gookin - Author of "C For Dummies" and other programming books - https://github.com/DanGookin Zed A. Shaw - Author of "Learn C the Hard Way" and other programming books - https://github.com/zedshaw Mark Lutz - Author of "C Programming for the Absolute Beginner" and Python books - https://github.com/learning-python Rich Felker - Founder of the musl libc project, an alternative C library for Linux-based systems - https://github.com/richfelker William A. Rowe Jr. - A key contributor to the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project, which includes a custom libc implementation for the Apache HTTP Server - https://github.com/wrowe Stefan Tomanek - Creator of dietlibc, a libc optimized for small size - https://github.com/stefan-tomanek (The dietlibc project itself doesn't have an official GitHub repository, but you can find it at https://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/) Szabolcs Nagy - A contributor to the musl libc project and creator of the math library used in musl - https://github.com/szabolcsnagy Alexei Starovoitov - Creator of the uClibc-ng project, a small C library for developing embedded Linux systems - https://github.com/ast-uClibc (The uClibc-ng project can be found at https://github.com/wbx-github/uClibc-ng)