Dutch programmer who created the Python programming language. He won a bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. One in 40 gold medallists at the IMO goes on to secure a big science prize—50 times the rate of undergraduates at MIT—and van Rossum is among those whose Olympiad background presaged a transformative career.
If I'd known computer science was going to be like this, I'd never have given up being a rock 'n' roll star.