David Braben

David Braben (born 1964) is an English video game developer and designer. With Ian Bell he wrote Elite while both were undergraduates at Cambridge, first released in 1984 and known as the first game to use 3D hidden-line removal, and he later published Zarch and wrote the sequel Frontier. He founded Frontier Developments, where he remains President and majority shareholder after stepping down as chief executive in 2022. Braben studied Natural Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge, specialising in Electrical Science in his final year. In 2011 he announced the prototype of the Raspberry Pi, a credit-card-sized computer with an ARM processor running Linux, meant to stimulate the teaching of basic computer science in schools, and he is a co-founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 and appointed OBE in 2014.