Linus Torvalds, a creator of the nucleus Linux
- Linus Torvalds is a creator of the open nucleus Linux
- Larry Wall is a creator of the language and system of programming Perl
- Richard Stallman is a founder of conception of free program software
- Jef Raskin
- Eric Raymond, a founder of Open Source Initiative
- Mark Zuckerberg is a young billionaire who came into the history as a half-educated person-hacker
Famous net runners
- Robert Morris is an author of Morris worm of 1988. (In reality Morris worm is a laboratory experiment therefore he can be considered as the net runner conditionally.)
- Adrian Lamo is famous for breaking Yahoo, Citigroup, Bank of America and Cingular.
- Jonathan Josef James is an American hacker, became the first juvenile judged for hackishness.
- John Draper is one from the first hackers in the history of the computer world.
Famous hackers-writers
- Kris Kaspersky is an author of popular books and articles in computer themes.
- Kevin Mitnick is the most famous net runner, now a writer and specialist in the field of information security.