Comment by oblio

Linus Torvalds is Finnish.

Guido Van Rossum is Dutch.

Anders Hejlsberg is Danish.

Bjarne Stroustroup is Danish (I think?).

Rasmus Lersdorf is Danish.

Bram Molenaar was Dutch.

Edgar Dijkstra was Dutch.

Niklaus Wirth was Swiss.

Andrei Alexandrescu is Romanian.

I can probably think of many others.

The US is good at inventing things but it's amazing at marketing them and making money and drawing others to do the inventing for them.