John A. Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. Widely considered an innovative genius, many praise him as the "current Walt Disney."

John Hench was an employee of The Walt Disney Company for more than sixty five years, an exceptionally long tenure which saw the rise of nearly every Disney animated feature and theme park. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hench attended numerous art and creative schools across the country, including the Art Students' League in New York City, the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, …

Marc Fraser Davis was a prominent artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films. Some of the animated characters Davis mainly designed and animated are Thumper from "Bambi" (1942), Brer Rabbit from "Song of the South" (1946), "Cinderella" (1950), Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" (1951), Tinker Bell in "Peter Pan" (1953), …

Joseph "Joe" Rohde is a veteran executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, the division of The Walt Disney Company that designs and builds Disney's theme parks and resort hotels. Rohde's formal title is "executive designer and vice president, creative." He is the lead designer of Disney's Animal Kingdom, one of four theme parks at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Mary Blair (October 21, 1911-July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an American artist best remembered today for work done for The Walt Disney Company. Blair produced striking concept art for such films as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Peter Pan". Her style also lives on through the character designs for the Disney attraction "it's a small world", as well as an enormous mosaic inside Disney's Contemporary Resort.

Francis Xavier Atencio (born 1920 in Walsenburg, Colorado), commonly known as X Atencio, is a former animator, composer, and Imagineer for The Walt Disney Company. He was a Disney artist from 1938 until 1965, when he became an Imagineer to help design the Disneyland Railroad's Primeval World diorama segment. He then contributed to various Disney attractions. He wrote the script for both Adventure Thru Inner Space and Pirates of the Caribbean, …

Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914 - July 8, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning animator for the Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as Disney's Nine Old Men. While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical characters rather than complicated human designs. Animating came easily to him and he was constantly looking to do things differently. Because of this, Walt Disney called Ward a genius in the book, …

Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks, was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His name is explained by his East Frisian roots — his father, Eert Ubbe Iwwerks, emigrated to the USA in 1869 from the village Uttum in East Frisia (northwest Germany).

Roger E. Broggie (October 22 1908-November 4 1991) was a creative American mechanical engineer who worked with Walt Disney and the Walt Disney Company. Inducted as a Disney Legend in 1990, he was one of the most influential imagineers to ever work with Walt Disney. His background and early work experience was technical rather than artistic. It was Broggie's mechanical ability that blended well with the visual imagineering that Walt Disney needed to build the Disney Empire.

Harper Goff (born March 16 1911 in Fort Collins, Colorado, died March 3 1993) was an artist, musician, and actor. He is best remembered as the driving artistic force behind many of the visual aspects of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", early renderings and concept art for Walt Disney's proposed "Mickey Mouse Park" (which later evolved into the Disneyland theme park), and several areas of the Walt Disney World theme park.

Leota Thomas was an employee of WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering), the division of The Walt Disney Company that designs and builds Disney's theme parks and resort hotels. She was born Leota Ann Wharton. Her first husband was Harvey Toombs; the second was Hugh Thomas. She is best known as the face of "Madame Leota", the disembodied head that speaks from inside a crystal ball in Disney's Haunted Mansion attractions.

Robert Swirsky (born December, 1962, Brooklyn, NY) is a computer scientist, author, and pianist. In the early 1980s, Swirsky was one of the first regular contributors to the nascent computer magazine industry. His articles appeared in magazines including Popular Computing, Kilobaud Microcomputing, Interface Age, and Creative Computing. Robert Swirsky holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Hofstra University, …

Tad Stones (born c.1952 in Burbank, California) is an American animator, screenwriter, producer and director best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 1974 to 2003. His most notable credits for Disney include creating, writing and producing the animated series "Darkwing Duck" and producing "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers", "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears" and "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command".

Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, …

Thorton Hee (26 March 1911 - 30 October 1988) was an American animator, director, and teacher. He is usually credited as T. Hee. Hee worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1935-36 as a character designer. He designed many of the celebrity caricatures used in "The Coo Coo Nut Grove" (1936) and "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos" (1937). A 1936 Christmas card that he drew, featuring caricatures of the Schlesinger animators, …

William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work.