Licklider - American computer scientist who created the idea of a universal network which his successors developed into the internet, the first Director of the IPTO. He was a brilliant visionary and pioneer in the field of human-computer interaction and specifically the field of interactive computing.
Larry Roberts is sometimes called the "father of the ARPANET.“ He was also the principal architect of the ARAPNET.
Paul Baran had proposed two ideas that became very important in the development of the ARPANET: the first - to build a distributed network; the second - to use a packet switching for data transmitting.
Leonard Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist, a professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. He made several important contributions to the field of networking, in particular to the theoretical foundations of computer networking. He played an influential role in the development of the ARPANet.
Larry Roberts
( was born in 1937)
https://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/roberts.html
Paul Baran
(was born in 1926)
Wesley Clark
(was born in 1927)
Leonard Kleinrock
(was born in 1934)