Transgender computer programmers

The list Transgender computer programmers includes Wendy Carlos, Audrey Tang, Lynn Conway, Kate Craig-Wood and Alexia Massalin. The list consists of 25 members.

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Gender identity that differs from sex assigned at birth

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Wendy Carlos

American composer and electronic musician (born 1939)

Overview: Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and ...

Date of birth: 14 November 1939

Age: 85

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Classical musicians from Rhode Island 4T

LGBT classical composers 103T

20th-century women composers 1,225T
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Kate Craig-Wood

British businesswoman

Overview: Kate Helen Craig-Wood (born 1977) is a British IT entrepreneur and the co-founder and managing director of Memset Dedicated Hosting. She has received a number of awards, including being listed 4th among ...

Date of birth: 1977

Age: 48

Nationality: British

Occupation: Other

Gender: Female

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British women computer scientists 51T

Transgender and transsexual women 547T

LGBT scientists 134T
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Audrey Tang

Taiwanese computer programmer

Overview: Audrey Tang (born 18 April 1981; formerly known as Autrijus Tang, Chinese: 唐宗漢 Táng Zōnghàn) is a Taiwanese free software programmer and Taiwan's Digital Minister, who has been described as one of the ...

Date of birth: 18 April 1981

Age: 44

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Computer Programmer

Gender: Male

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Transgender and transsexual scientists 11T

Transgender non-binary people 32T

21st-century Taiwanese women 9T
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Lynn Conway

American computer scientist

Overview: Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist.

Date of birth: 10 January 1938

Date of death: 9 June 2024

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Computer Programmer

Gender: Female

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Transgender and transsexual scientists 11T

Transgender academics 52T

American women computer scientists 237T
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Ashawna Hailey

Computer scientist

Overview: Ashawna Hailey (October 8, 1949 – October 14, 2011) was among the creators of the HSPICE program (a commercialized version of SPICE), which many electronic design companies worldwide use to simulate the ...

Date of birth: 8 October 1949

Date of death: 14 October 2011

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

American women computer scientists 237T

20th-century philanthropists 1,966T
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Christine Beatty (activist)

American writer, musician and activist

Overview: Christine Beatty (born in 1958 in San Mateo, California) is an American writer, musician and transgender activist. She is one of the first trans women to perform and record as a heavy metal musician.

Date of birth: 1958

Age: 67

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

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Transgender and transsexual women 547T

People from San Mateo, California 136T

Transgender and transsexual writers 237T
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Alexia Massalin

American computer scientist and programmer

Overview: Alexia Massalin (formerly Henry Massalin) is an American computer scientist and programmer. She pioneered the concept of superoptimization, and designed the Synthesis kernel, a small kernel with a Unix ...

Date of birth: 1 January 1962

Age: 63

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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American women computer scientists 237T

Transgender and transsexual women 547T

Women computer scientists 318T
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Sandy Stone (artist)

American artist (born 1936)

Overview: Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone (born c. 1936) is an American academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist. She is currently Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced ...

Date of birth: 1936

Age: 89

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Transgender academics 74T

Transgender studies academics 51T

Writers from Jersey City, New Jersey 65T
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Sophie Wilson

English computer scientist

Overview: Sophie Mary Wilson CBE FRS FREng (born 1957) is an English computer scientist, who helped design the BBC Micro and ARM architecture.

Date of birth: 1957

Age: 68

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Scientists from Yorkshire 52T

Transgender academics 52T

Fellows of the Women's Engineering Society 7T
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Jennifer Diane Reitz

American comic writer

Overview: Jennifer Diane Reitz (born December 30, 1959) is an American writer, webcomic author, and game designer. She is known for the website Happy Puppy, which she opened with her partners, Stephen P. Lepisto ...

Date of birth: 1959

Age: 66

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American female comics artists 217T

American webcomic creators 128T

Transgender and transsexual women 547T
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Rebecca Heineman

American video game programmer

Overview: Rebecca Ann Heineman is an American video game designer and programmer. A long-time veteran of the video game industry, Heineman was a founding member of video game companies Interplay Productions, L ...

Date of birth: 30 October 1963

Age: 61

Occupation: Computer Programmer

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Interplay Entertainment people 17T

Women video game programmers 15T

LGBT people from Washington (state) 91T
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Mary Ann Horton

American computer scientist and Usenet pioneer (born 1955)

Overview: Mary Ann Horton (born Mark R. Horton, on November 21, 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, created the first ...

Date of birth: 21 November 1955

Age: 69

Occupation: Activist

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Transgender and transsexual scientists 11T

LGBT people from Washington (state) 91T

LGBT people from California 626T
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Matt Thorson

Canadian video game developer

Overview: Maddy Thorson (born Matt Thorson; 18 March 1988) is a Canadian video game developer, known as one of the lead creators for the video games TowerFall and Celeste, developed under their studio Matt Makes ...

Date of birth: 18 March 1988

Age: 37

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Computer Programmer

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Jamie Fenton

American video game programmer

Overview: Jamie Faye Fenton (born Jay Fenton) is a game programmer best known for the 1981 arcade game Gorf and for being one of the creators of MacroMind's VideoWorks software (since renamed Macromedia Director) ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Computer Programmer

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Transgender and transsexual women 547T

Computer programmers 292T

Transgender and transsexual people 146T
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Cathryn Mataga

Video game programmer

Overview: Cathryn Mataga (born William Mataga) is a game programmer and founder of independent video game company Junglevision. Under the name William, she wrote Atari 8-bit computer games for Synapse Software in ...

Occupation: Computer Programmer

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Women video game programmers 15T

Transgender and transsexual women 547T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
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Danielle Bunten Berry

American video game designer and programmer

Overview: Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998), formerly known as Dan Bunten, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E., one of the first influential mu ...

Date of birth: 19 February 1949

Date of death: 3 July 1998

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Designer

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MicroProse people 13T

Artists from Little Rock, Arkansas 14T

Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame inductees 22T
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Brianna Titone

American politician and scientist

Overview: Brianna Titone is an American politician and scientist, currently serving as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 27th district. She serves in the 73nd Colorado General Assembly and ...

Occupation: Computer Programmer

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21st-century American women politicians 3,147T

21st-century American politicians 12,686T

LGBT scientists from the United States 111T
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Porpentine (game designer)

American video game designer, new media artist, writer and curator

Overview: Porpentine Charity Heartscape (born 1987) is a video game designer, new media artist, writer and curator based in Oakland, California. She is primarily a developer of hypertext games and interactive ...

Date of birth: 1987

Age: 38

Nationality: American

Occupation: Computer Programmer

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Anne Ogborn

American activist

Overview: Anne Ogborn is a transgender rights activist who was born in Salina, Kansas in 1959. According to Patrick Califia she "should be credited as a forerunner of transgender direct action groups." She is a ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

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Women in computing 31T

Hijra (South Asia) people 3T

Transgender rights activists 127T
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Douglas J. Mink

American astronomer

Overview: Jessica Mink (formerly Douglas John Mink) is an American software developer and a data archivist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She was part of the team that discovered the rings around ...

Date of birth: 1951

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Computer Programmer

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Transgender and transsexual scientists 11T

Women planetary scientists 79T

LGBT people from Nebraska 22T