According to this article, the following are the greatest geeks of all time. Well, circa 2008 at the very least…

  1. Linux Torvalds
  2. Steve Wozniak
  3. Sir Tim Berners-Lee
  4. Seymour Cray
  5. Marc Andreessen
  6. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
  7. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
  8. Alan Turing
  9. Richard Stallman
  10. Paul Allen

Have to admit, while the top 5 are familiar names to me, 6 & 7 are the “who??” choices, while 9 & 10 are not what I’d expected…