Turing Award

Turing Award: every winner

Every recorded recipient in one list, oldest first. The Association for Computing Machinery's highest award, given since 1966 for contributions of lasting importance to computing. Awarded annually and presented each June at the ACM Awards Banquet in the United States. Carries a prize of $1 million, funded by Google.

Browse Turing Award by year

81 recipients, 1966-2025

Year	Winner
1966	Alan Perlis
1967	Maurice Wilkes
1968	Richard Hamming
1969	Marvin Minsky
1970	James H. Wilkinson
1971	John McCarthy
1972	Edsger W. Dijkstra
1973	Charles Bachman
1974	Donald Knuth
1975	Allen Newell
1975	Herbert A. Simon
1976	Michael O. Rabin
1976	Dana Scott
1977	John Backus
1978	Robert W. Floyd
1979	Kenneth E. Iverson
1980	Tony Hoare
1981	Edgar F. Codd
1982	Stephen Cook
1983	Dennis Ritchie
1983	Ken Thompson
1984	Niklaus Wirth
1985	Richard M. Karp
1986	John Hopcroft
1986	Robert Tarjan
1987	John Cocke
1988	Ivan Sutherland
1989	William Kahan
1990	Fernando J. Corbató
1991	Robin Milner
1992	Butler Lampson
1993	Juris Hartmanis
1993	Richard E. Stearns
1994	Edward Feigenbaum
1994	Raj Reddy
1995	Manuel Blum
1996	Amir Pnueli
1997	Douglas Engelbart
1998	Jim Gray
1999	Fred Brooks
2000	Andrew Yao
2001	Ole-Johan Dahl
2001	Kristen Nygaard
2002	Leonard Adleman
2002	Ron Rivest
2002	Adi Shamir
2003	Alan Kay
2004	Vint Cerf
2004	Robert Kahn
2005	Peter Naur
2006	Frances Allen
2007	Edmund M. Clarke
2007	E. Allen Emerson
2007	Joseph Sifakis
2008	Barbara Liskov
2009	Charles P. Thacker
2010	Leslie Valiant
2011	Judea Pearl
2012	Shafi Goldwasser
2012	Silvio Micali
2013	Leslie Lamport
2014	Michael Stonebraker
2015	Whitfield Diffie
2015	Martin Hellman
2016	Tim Berners-Lee
2017	John L. Hennessy
2017	David Patterson
2018	Yoshua Bengio
2018	Geoffrey Hinton
2018	Yann LeCun
2019	Edwin Catmull
2019	Pat Hanrahan
2020	Alfred Aho
2020	Jeffrey Ullman
2021	Jack Dongarra
2022	Robert Metcalfe
2023	Avi Wigderson
2024	Andrew Barto
2024	Richard S. Sutton
2025	Charles H. Bennett
2025	Gilles Brassard