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John Carmack was born on 20 August, 1970

American game programmer best known as the co-founder of id Software. He was the lead programmer of some of the pioneering FPS games from the company including Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, Rage and many more. He is also known for contributions to 3D graphics especially with Carmark’s Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes.