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Computer science is the study of computers, including their design (architecture) and their uses for computations, data processing, and systems control. This is a list of computer scientists organized alphabetically by country of origin or residence.

American

Australian

Austrian

British

Canadian

Danish

Dutch

Egyptian

Finnish

French

German

  • Joseph Weizenbaum
  • Konrad Zuse

Greek

Hungarian

Indian

Israeli

Norwegian

South Korean

Swiss

This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn.