Inanna

Sumerian goddess.

The name comes from a woman in ancient Sumer (in-between where Iran and Iraq are now) who lived around 5000 BCE. To cut long story short, the ancient Sumerians used a set of clay tablets with simple, algorithmic instructions on them to decide when to plant crops and so on, but these tablets were held by the central government. Inanna conned, tricked or persuaded (legends vary) the guy who was responsible for maintaining them into letting her take a copy of them, and then distributed the copies to each city and put them in public view. I think of her as the first Free Software activist. (From http://inanna.ecs.soton.ac.uk)