Biographies

of significant high-tech innovators of the San Francisco Bay Area (in roughly chronological order)

An appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley"


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Please contact me if you know the missing birthplaces and birth dates or to suggest other bios.


(Copyright © 2011 Piero Scaruffi)


Leland Stanford
David Starr Jordan
Harris Ryan
Lee DeForest
Charles Herrold
Cyril Elwell
Peter Jensen
Alexander Poniatoff
Russ and Sigurd Varian
Frederick Terman
Ernest Lawrence
Robert Oppenheimer
Philo Farnsworth
Bill Hansen
William Shockley
David Packard
William Hewlett
Ed Ginzton
Harry Huskey
Carl Djerassi
Alejandro Zaffaroni
Edgar Codd
David Evans
Donald Glaser
Sydney Brenner
Paul Berg
Stanley Cohen
Herbert Boyer
Jean Hoerni
Douglas Engelbart
John McCarthy
Charlie Sporck
Bill Perry
Robert Noyce
Gordon Moore
Alan Shugart

Ray Dolby
Pierre Lamond
Frank Wanlass
Bob Taylor
Don Valentine
Andy Grove
Regis McKenna
Sam Eletr
Adam Osborne
Lee Boysel
John Warnock
Alan Kay
David Duffield
Federico Faggin
Mike Markkula
Ralph Ungermann
Gary Kildall
Nolan Bushnell
Vinton Cerf
William Millard
Michael Stonebraker
Larry Ellison
Bill Raduchel
Bill Haseltine
Jim Clark
Ed Catmull
Lee Felsenstein
Manuel Fernandez
Craig Venter
Bob Metcalfe
Gary Hendrix
James Sachs
Michael Hunkapiller
Marc Porat
Jerry Kaplan

Scott Fisher
Steve Wozniak
Bill Atkinson
Leonard Bosack
Thomas Siebel
Craig Newmark
Trip Hawkins
Michael West
Don Eigler
John Hennessy
Pradeep Sindhu
Bill Joy
Scott McNealy
Condoleezza Rice
Carly Fiorina
Judy Estrin
Andy Bechtolsheim
Vinod Khosla
Eric Drexler
Sandy Lerner
Steve Jobs
James Gosling
Eric Schmidt
Peter Schultz
Jeff Hawkins
Radoje Drmanac
Clifford Reid
KR Sridhar
Jaron Lanier
Martin Eberhard
Linda Avey
Reed Hastings
Victoria Hale
Steve Perlman
Chris Gronet

Mendel Rosenblum
Andy Rubin
Marc Tarpenning
Jay Keasling
Marc Benioff
Victor Markowitz
Samir Arora
Tim Westergren
Jimmy Wales
David Filo
Eric Brewer
Peter Thiel
Pierre Omidyar
Sabeer Bhatia
Jerry Yang
Elon Musk
Drew Endy
Marc Andreessen
Larry Page
Gina Bianchini
Anne Wojcicki
Sergey Brin
Max Levchin
Jack Dorsey
Chad Hurley
Christopher Voigt
Steve Chen
Jawed Karim
Mark Zuckerberg


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