Sir Tim Berners-Lee is most known for inventing the World Wide Web. He has continuously promoted open government data globally and is actively working on policies that champion net neutrality, privacy, and the openness of the Web. [2] Some of his notable achievements:

He is the co-founder and CTO of Inrupt.com, a tech start-up that uses, promotes, and helps develop the open-source Solid platform.
He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.
He is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which was launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he co-leads the Decentralized Information Group.)
He is President of and founded the Open Data Institute in London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. [2] Berners-Lee has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize, and Germany's Die Quadriga award. He has also been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for "ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity." For his incredible life's work, Berners-Lee was also awarded the ACM A.M.Turing Prize (the "Nobel Prize of Computing"). [2]

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[1] Tim Berners-Lee, wikipedia.org
[2] Tim Berners-Lee, w3.org

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