Ask HN: Who is your favorite historical person in computer science?

Define "historical" ...

Anyway I nominate Cliff Stoll who wrote The Cuckoo's Egg and posts here from time to time. Definitely one of my heroes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)

Also I have one of his Klein bottles And he makes the buying process and paperwork an utter delight.

Claude Shannon: https://thebitplayer.com/

Adolf Hitler

There are so many, but the first to come into mind was Knuth. The body of work is just insane for a one person (TAOCP, TeX/Metafont, literate programming/web, etc.).