Bill Gates

Bill Gates was the founder of Microsoft. In 1996, he apologised for an incident at the Festival of Ghana in which the androids for which his company had supplied the software had started killing people, despite insisting that it wasn't his fault. (PROSE: Interference - Book One)

In 2004, one of the attendees at the opening of the Tomorrow Windows at Tate Modern had thought it was something Bill Gates was launching. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows)

During the Year That Never Was, Alison Docherty had a moment of computer trouble and remarked, "Who would have thought we'd miss Bill Gates". (TV: Last of the Time Lords)

The Ninth Doctor said that people like Bill Gates were "peasants" compared to Drake Ayelbourne, the wealthiest man in the outer rim of the galaxy. (COMIC: Mystery Date)

When the Thirteenth Doctor accessed the Spy Master's temporal map showing every significant person in the development of computers through history, Bill Gates was among them. (TV: Spyfall)