- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, … - Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan Bale; born 30 January, 1974) is a Welsh-born, English method actor who is known for his roles in the films "American Psycho", "Equilibrium", "Batman Begins" and "The Prestige", among others. Bale is also known for his versatility as an actor, including mimicking nearly any English-language-based accent, … - Larry Page
Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page (born March 26 1973 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin. Page is currently the President of Products at Google Inc. and has a net worth estimated at 16.6 billion dollars, making him the 26th richest (living) person in the world together with Sergey Brin according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires on 2007 - Dave Winer
Dave Winer , 39, has been a commercial software developer, marketer and software demoer since 1979. Winer pioneered the category of outline processing, shipping ThinkTank for the IBM PC, Apple II and Macintosh in 1983 and 1984; Ready for the IBM PC in 1985 and MORE for Macintosh in 1986. MORE won MacUser's first Product of the Year Eddy in 1986. He founded and was president of Living Videotext, Inc., which merged with Symantec in 1987. - Doc Searls
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal , which has been covering the world's fastest-growing operating system since Version 1.0, in 1994. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , perhaps the only book (and probably the only bestseller) that began as a rant on a Web site. He also writes Doc Searls Weblog , which usually ranks well up in Technorati's Top 100 blogs (out of about 2.7 million). - Kevin Rose
Robert Kevin Rose (born February 21, 1977 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; better known as Kevin Rose) is best known for founding the social-bookmarking site Digg and as former co-host of the TechTV show "The Screen Savers" (later "Attack of the Show!" on G4) until his departure from the network in May 2005. He attended UNLV for computer science, but dropped out to pursue the 90's tech boom. - Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites. - Bill Maher
William Maher, Jr., (pronounced:) (born January 20 1956) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He hosted the late-night television talk show "Politically Incorrect" on Comedy Central and ABC, and is currently the star of "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO. On June 1, 2006, he also began hosting an internet-exclusive talk show on Amazon.com entitled "Amazon Fishbowl". Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary. - David Weinberger
David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is a technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing"). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society. - Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), … - Joi Ito
Joi Ito , an activist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur of Internet and technology companies. He has founded companies such as PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and is the founder and currently the CEO of the venture capital firm, Neoteny Co., Ltd. - Matt Drudge
Matthew Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet journalist and a talk radio host. He is best known as the proprietor of the "Drudge Report" website, which attracted national attention when it was the first to break the news of a sexual relationship between a White House intern and President Bill Clinton (the "Monica Lewinsky scandal") in 1998. - Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama . He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago . - Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo (born July 26, 1973 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome. He spent two years hosting the TechTV (now known as G4) television program "Call for Help" before parting ways with the company. He also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon on TechTV. - Evan Williams
Evan Williams, born in 1972, a native of Nebraska, is an American entrepreneur who has founded two Internet companies. Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google. - Tom Watson
Tom Watson (born February 21, 1962 in Yonkers, New York) is an American journalist, entrepreneur and blogger. Watson is Chief Strategy Officer of Changing Our World, a national consulting company he helped to found. At Changing Our World, Watson created onPhilanthropy, an online resource for philanthropy professionals; he often comments on and writes frequently about the intersection of media and philanthropy. - Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software. - Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is a Platinum-selling, American country music singer-songwriter. In 2006, she had her first hit at the young age of 16, called "Tim McGraw", about a summer love. Since then, she has risen to fame as a successful teenage star and is also an Internet sensation. She won CMT's "Breakthrough Video of the Year" award in 2007 for her hit "Tim McGraw", and was also nominated by the Academy of Country Music for "Top New Female Vocalist". - Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmark (born 6 December 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based website Craigslist. Newmark attended Morristown High School. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University. Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. He has donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, … - Michael Geist
Michael Allen Geist (born 11 July 1968) is a Canadian academic, and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. Geist was educated at the University of Western Ontario, Osgoode Hall Law School, Cambridge University and the Columbia Law School. His weekly columns on new technology and its legal ramifications appear in the "Toronto Star" and the "Ottawa Citizen". - Christine Boutin
Christine Boutin is a French politician. As of 2004, she is a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Yvelines "département". She is the leader of the Forum des républicains sociaux (Forum of Social Republicans, FRS), a French conservative Christian-democratic party. She became famous in 1998 for opposing the PACS domestic partnership plan, … - Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. - Adam Curry
Adam Clark Curry (born September 3, 1964 in Washington, D.C.) is a broadcasting and Internet personality well known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a video jockey on the music video channel MTV. In the mid-1990s, Curry was a World Wide Web entrepreneur and one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site. In the 2000s, he helped pioneer podcasting, and is often called the 'Podfather' because of his efforts. He pilots his own Cessna 182 RG. - Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura (born James George Janos on July 15, 1951), also known as "The Body", "The Star", "The Mind", and "Governor Body", is an American politician, former professional wrestler, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host. - Kim Komando
Currently America's most popular computer/digital lifestyle expert, her weekly talk radio show is heard (via her own network) on over 450 stations. In addition, she does a daily "tip of the day" radio feature heard five days a week; has written seven successful books about life in the digital age; and still authors a widely syndicated newspaper column. Some 4.6 million people receive her tips by e-mail weekly. - Marissa Mayer
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time. - John Markoff
John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work at the "The New York Times", and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick. - Star Wars Kid
Ghyslain Raza (born 1988) became widely known on the Internet in May 2003 as the "Star Wars" kid" when a video clip he recorded of himself was leaked online. At the time of his celebrity as an internet phenomenon, he was a high school student in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. - Ze Frank
Ze Frank (born Hosea Jan Frank on March 31, 1972, first name, rhymes with "say") is an online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Brooklyn, New York. - John Young
John Young is a New York based architect, but is better known as the controversial Internet activist who created and maintains Cryptome.org. Cryptome is a web-based mirror of government information, memorandums, policy documents, and records. In his capacity as administrator of Cryptome, Young has courted controversy, receiving visits from the FBI, subpoenas, Slashdot interviews, and an attack in "Reader's Digest". Public opinion on Cryptome is varied. - Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (IPA: [EpE'lEnEk])[1] (born February 21, 1962) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist of Ukrainian ancestry born in Pasco, Washington. The press release for his latest book, Rant, states he is now living in Vancouver, Washington. He is best known for the award-winning novel, "Fight Club," which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher . - Nick Berg
Nicholas Berg (April 2, 1978 - May 7, 2004) was an American businessman seeking telecommunications work in Iraq during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. He was abducted and later beheaded in May 2004 by militants. The CIA claimed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi personally beheaded Berg. The decapitation, the first of a series of such killings of foreign hostages in Iraq, received worldwide attention because it was videotaped, … - Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson (born October 13, 1975) is the President of the social networking website, MySpace. He founded the site along with CEO Chris DeWolfe. Since newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default "friend," he has become known as the face of MySpace. As of Nov 17, 2008, Tom has 250,216,689 "friends". Anderson attended UC Berkeley from 1994 to 1998, UCLA 1999-2001 - Tao
The TAO Collective or The Anarchy Organization is a Canada-based radical and non-profit computer service provider, offering free email and web hosting in exchange for mutual aid. As the first of its kind in North America, it has helped to spawn another radical tech group called resist.ca as well as inspire others. The organization is founded on anarchist principles of self-determination, cooperation, and liberty, … - Mitchell Baker
Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. - Steven Wright
Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Burlington, Massachusetts. He is known for his slow, deadpan, monotone delivery of ironic, witty, deeply philosophical and sometimes confusing jokes and one-liners with overly contrived situations. Wright released a comedy album in 1985 titled "I Have a Pony", released on Warner Bros. - Z.O
Z.O is an emerging MC from the underground urban music scene in wolverhampton, England. he reached popularity with his debut album/mixtape titled "Solitary Confinement" released in 2006, which featured 21 tracks including underground hits such as "Street Life", "Xtreme" and "Dance". The mixtape was free and was not available in shops, it was only available in certain local establishments such as barber shops, … - John Rogers
John Rogers is a scriptwriter, comedian, film producer, and comic book writer. Although born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he attended McGill University in Montreal and is better known publicly as a Canadian writer. As a comedian, Rogers was nominated three times for Gemini Awards. Rogers wrote the first draft of the script for the live-action movie "Transformers", scheduled for 2007. He is also working on the "Fatal Frame" film adaptation. - Ben Hammersley
Ben Hammersley (born April 3, 1976), in Leicester, England) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and photographer, currently based in Florence, Italy. Currently a reporter for the BBC, he previously worked as the first Internet reporter for "The Times", where he was shortlisted for one of the British Press Awards, and as a reporter for The Guardian. During his early career, he specialised in technology journalism, but unlike many technology writers, … - Cindy Margolis
Cynthia D. "Cindy" Margolis (born October 1, 1965) is an American glamour spokesmodel and actress.
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