[cschmidt]

Sure, but I saw the headline and though "Oh, the guy who wrote the LaTex book".

http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/...

I imagine that is how he is best known. I didn't even know he did LaTex, just the book.

[jgreen10]

Perhaps in terms of quantity, but to many he is the man who single-handedly brought order to distributed systems. I was surprised he had not won a Turing award yet.