Jamie Zawinski is known about some things he has created. But, besides that, when he was asked about how he see himself he gave a really interesting answer:

Seibel: That brings me to another of my standard questions: do you, as a programmer, think of yourself as a scientist or an engineer or an artist or a craftsman or something else?

Zawinski: Well, definitely not a scientist or engineer because those have very formal connotations. I don’t do a lot of math; I don’t draw blueprints; I don’t prove things. I guess somewhere between craftsman and artist, depending on what the project is. I write a lot of screen savers—that’s not craftsman; that’s making pretty pictures. Somewhere in that area.

Coders at work – page 41 – Jaime Zawinski