The Man Behind The Operating System

Although most operating systems are developed by a team of programmers,
they almost all start out as the vision of a single person. Here are those people.

2K.............Roy H. Campbell
Acorn MOS......Sophie Wilson
AdaOS..........Nick Roberts
AIX............IBM
Amiga..........Jay Miner
Amoeba.........Andrew Tanenbaum
AtheOS.........Kurt Skauen
BeOS...........Jean-Louis Gassee
BSD.OS.........Mike Karels
CP/M...........Gary Kildall
EROS...........Jonathan S. Shapiro
FreeBSD........Jordan K. Hubbard
FreeDOS........Jim Hall
GNU Hurd.......Richard Stallman
IRIX...........Kurt Akeley
Linux..........Linus Torvalds
Mac OS.........Steve Jobs
Minix..........Andrew Tanenbaum
Multics........Jack Dennis
Mungi..........Gernot Heiser
MS.DOS.........Tim Patterson
Net BSD........Chris G. Demetriou
NeXtstep.......Steve Jobs
Oberon.........Niklaus Wirth
Open BSD.......Theo De Raadt
Plan 9.........Rob Pike
QNX............Dan Dodge
RISC OS........Sophie Wilson
Solaris........Bill Joy
UNIX...........Ken Thompson
Windows........Bill Gates
Windows NT.....David Cutter

This list is far from complete if you have anything to add please /msg me.