A group of folks on The C++ Source advisory board would like to put together a "Who's Who in C++" document. BillVenners suggested doing this via a wiki page, and then when it achieves a certain done-ness, turn it into an article for The C++ Source. I think that's a great idea and suggested this page as a start. -- WardCunningham

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ScottMeyers' recent Artima article ''"The Most Important C++ People... Ever"'' [http://www.artima.com/cppsource/top_cpp_people.html] might be a good starting point. His five were:

* BjarneStroustrup
* AndrewKoenig
* ScottMeyers - author of EffectiveCeePlusPlus etc.
** http://www.aristeia.com/
* HerbSutter
** http://www.gotw.ca/
* AndreiAlexandrescu - author of ModernCeePlusPlusDesign
** http://www.erdani.org/ 

Some additional individuals:
* AlexanderStepanov
** MattAustern worked closely with Stepanov at SGI, and the STL owes a very large debt to him as well. See also Matthew H. Austern, "Generic Programming and the STL: Using and Extending the C++ Standard Template Library". Addison-Wesley, 1999, hardcover, 608 p., ISBN 0-201-30956-4 
* BarbaraMoo 
* MengLee
** She co-authored and co-developed with Stepanov the 1995 Hewlett-Packard technical report titled "The StandardTemplateLibrary"
* DavidMusser

''The STL is so incredibly essential to (and fused with) modern C++ that I would insist that Stepanov should be one of the top 3, ahead even of Meyers and Alexandrescu. -- DougMerritt''  

Members of the team that created the C++StandardTemplateLibrary and the definitive book by the same name: Alexander A. Stepanov, Meng Lee, and David R. Musser.

Should RobertMurray be on the list?
Also:
* C++ metaobjects and integration with SOM
** IraForman 
* Co-Authors on C++/Com Integration
** DonBox
** RichardGrimes
* Explained streams and locales
** AngelikaLanger 
* STLSoft and Author 
** MatthewWilson
* C++ numerics, financial analysis
** MichaelMarkov, 
** ThomasBecker, 
** ThomasKeffer – 
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'''Names contributed by BjarneStroustrup'''

[from http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=226&thread=174250]

(Of course, he didn't mention himself. HumilityIsKey)

* AlexanderStepanov 
** The STL.
* AndreiAlexandrescu
** Author.
* AndrewKoenig 
** Author, C++ project editor, contributor to many language features, manipulators.
* BemanDawes  
** Boost founder, rare user point-of-view in standards committee.
* BruceEckel 
** Early C++ author.
* DavidAbrahams 
** Formulated the exception guarantees, library provider, Boost co-founder, template metaprogramming guru, author.
* DmitriLenkov 
** Founded the ANSI C++ committee.
* DougMcIlroy 
** Bell Labs' most influential "critic" of early C++, languages and systems guru.
* DougLea 
** CORBA binding
* DougSchmidt 
** ACE, TAU, CORBA book.
* ErichGamma (and the rest of the gang of 4: RichardHelm, RalphJohnson, and JohnVlissides)
** Design patterns, early GUI, C++ banking software.
* FrancisGlassborow 
** ACCU founder, edition, and reviewer. UK committee member/delegate for a decade or so.
* Hans-Jurgen''''''Boehm (HansBoehm)
** (C and) C++ garbage collectors - C++ concurrency and memory model work.
* HerbSutter 
** Author, columnist, designer of C++/CLI, ISO convener.
* JerrySchwartz 
** IOStreams (the original stream were mine), years on the standards committee.
* JimCoplien 
** Early adventurous user, popularized the notion of idiom (from which "Pattern" borrowed a fair bit), author.
* JonathanShopiro 
** First C++ standards project editor, writer of many early libraries, CORBA C++ binding.
* JohnCarolan 
** First C++ business (not counting AT&T), porter and speaker.
* KevlinHenney 
** Author, inventor and/or popularisor of many technniques.
* KristenNygaard 
** Inventor of Simula and OOP/OOD, many discussions on aims and means of programming.
* MarshallCline 
** C++ FAQ.
* MartinO'Riorden 
** Early Cfront porter, first Microsoft C++ compiler, very Microsoft and Ireland representative.
* MattAustern 
** STL implementor, library WG chair, author.
* MichiHenning 
** CORBA book, ICE.
* MikeTiemann 
** Cygnus founder, first author of GNU C++, wrote GPL-lite to allow use of C++ libraries.
* PjPlauger 
** Library vendor, Implemented an industrial-strength standard library of C++, and continues to track all the changes.
* ScottMeyers 
** Author.
* StanLippman 
** Author, editor of "The C++ Report".
* SteveClamage 
** Early C++ compiler, C++ standards committee chairman, Sun representative.
* ToddVeldhuizen 
** Template metaprogramming, expression templates, proved C++ template instantiation Turing complete, MTL.
* TomCargill 
** Early C++ user, critic, and author (exception safety problems, language size problems).
* TomPlum 
** Defender of the C-view of C++, conformance suite.
* GabrielDosReis
** Scientific C++ user, co-proponent (with Bjarne) of concepts
* KrzysztofCzarnecki and UlrichEisenecker
** Authors, popularizers of generative programming in C++ and beyond
** See GenerativeProgrammingBook

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Names contributed by WalterBright:

* Bjorn Karlsson
** Author ( see BeyondTheCppStandardLibrary )
* Daveed Vandevoorde
** first standard conforming C++ compiler
** also author if CppTemplatesTheCompleteGuide

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Discussion Threads
* Artima
** http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=226&thread=174250&start=30
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