List of Famous people with last name Wirth

Niklaus Emil Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist. He has designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.

Barbara Wirth is a German former alpine ski racer competing in the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Wirth mainly competed in slalom and giant slalom events. In the 2013/2014 season she qualified for the slalom event at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was officially nominated by the DOSB on 23 January 2014. She retired in 2016.

Timothy Endicott Wirth is an American politician from Colorado who served as a Democrat in both the United States Senate (1987-1993) and the United States House of Representatives (1975–1987). He also served in several appointed roles in government, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education during the Nixon Administration and Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs for the U.S. State Department during the Clinton Administration. From 1998 to 2013, he served as the president of the United Nations Foundation, and currently sits on the Foundation's board.