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Some additional information and corrections:
Vinton Cerf - considered 'father of the Internet' having developed TCP/IP with Robert Kahn. Metcalfe developed Ethernet.
Cray - co-founded Control Data Corp (CDC) in 1957 and designer of three major CDC products. Founded Cray Research in 1972 where he developed Cray 1 (1976) and Cray 2 (1985).
Edison - 1093 patents included improved Alexander Bell telephone, electric light and city wide lighting system, phonograph, and authorized development of motion film. He did not advocate AC electric. Instead he fought AC electric by promoting his DC electric concepts.
Grace Hopper - first high level language compiler in 1959 - COBOL.
Gary Kildall - CP/M operating system and PL/M programming language originally developed for Intel in 1973. His company was originally called Intergalactic Digital Research.
Robert Metcalfe - another of the long list of pioneering inventors at Xerox Palo Alto Research who left to found a company when their great ideas sat stifled in Xerox.
Gordon Moore - also co founded Fairchild Semiconductor. Moores law was only for up to 65,000 components per IC - IOW was only suppose to hold until 1975.
Telsa - visualized and pioneered concepts that would become the electric motors, ac dynamos, and transformers that were the product line in Westinghouse. Later invented the Telsa coil. He believed that was the way to transmit electricity over long distances.
Marc Andreesen - Mosaic from which Netscape would later be based upon. James Clark of Silicon Graphics was his early mentor.
Hedy Lamarr - MaggieL provides one of he best descriptions I have ever read of her invention.
John Bardeen is specially noted not only for transistor development but also for the B in BCS - how superconductivity works. He received back to back Nobel prizes, if I remember correctly.
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