List of early Apple Computer employees

The following is a list of early employees from Apple Computer Inc., the predecessor of Apple Inc. that was incorporated on January 3, 1977.

Some of the earliest staff had been working at the Los Altos home of co-founder Steve Jobs' parents since the previous Apple Computer Company partnership was formed on April 1, 1976. The first eight badges were assigned in March 1977 by Michael Scott, Apple's first president, so the numbers may not reflect the order in which these early staff joined the company. Employees who left Apple and returned are known to have been re-issued their previous badge number.

List of employees by badge number
* Italicization indicates anecdotal entries with conflicting or no corroborating infomation.

Early employees with undetermined badge numbers

 * Bob Bailey - Collaborator on the Integrated Woz Machine.
 * Bruce Blumberg - Apple Lisa and Macintosh product manager. Hired in 1981.
 * Carl Carlson - Hired around December 1979 to become VP of operations.
 * John Couch - Head of the Apple Lisa development team.
 * Lyle Crouse - Apple II production and shipping manager.
 * Donn Denman - Ported Applesoft BASIC to the Apple III and developed MacBASIC. Hired in Summer 1979.
 * Gary Shannon - Apple II engineer misidentified as employee #17. Hired around January 1978 with a badge number in the 30s.
 * Bud Tribble - Joined the original Macintosh development team in 1980.

Articles

 * Macintosh Insiders Ten Years Later by Guy Kawasaki at Stanford University (1993-12-01)
 * These Pictures Of Apple's First Employees Are Absolutely Wonderful by Jim Edwards at Business Insider (2013-12-26)
 * Who are the unsung heroes in Apple's history? by Randy Wigginton at Quora (2014-03-02)