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by lproven 971 days ago
Charles Simonyi developed Bravo, the first WYSIWYG word processor, for the Alto at Xerox PARC.

He later wrote Microsoft Word, and other parts of what became MS Office, at Microsoft, where he was Chief Architect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi

He designed what is now called Hungarian Notation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

Word uses the famous piece table data structure -- also from PARC -- which is how "fast saves" work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160308183811/http://1017.songt...

As a result Simonyi is a billionaire and was the first ever two-time space tourist:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/26/space-tourist-...

You could justifiably say that he and his work are quite famous. (!)