1. Chris Sawyer

    "Chris Sawyer" is a Scottish computer game developer who is best-known for designing and programming "RollerCoaster Tycoon", "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2", and "Transport Tycoon". He entered the games industry in 1983, writing games in Z80 machine code on the Memotech MTX home computer, and then the Amstrad CPC series home computer. Some of these were published by Ariolasoft, "Sepulcri Scelerati" and "Ziggurat".

  2. John Miller

    John A. Miller (born August John Mueller in 1872, Homewood, Illinois - died June 24, 1941, Houston, Texas) was a roller coaster designer and builder. He held over 100 patents, many of which were for roller coaster safety devices (e.g. the safety chain dog). For a time in his early career, he worked as a consultant to the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. He designed over 60 coasters in his lifetime.

  3. Anton Schwarzkopf

    Anton Schwarzkopf (1924-2001) was a prolific German roller coaster engineer and founder of the Schwarzkopf Industries company, which built numerous amusement park rides and roller coasters

  4. John Wardley

    John Wardley is a British award-winning concept designer and developer for theme parks, mainly for rides such as roller coasters. <br /> Mr. Wardley started off in the theatre, then later moving on to the film industry (including creating the special effects for five of the James Bond movies). These careers showed him what entertained the British public. The Tussauds Group then hired him, mainly because of his experiences in constructing and performing stage illusions.

  5. Werner Stengel

    Werner Stengel is a notable German roller coaster designer and engineer. He is the founder of Stengel Engineering, also known as Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH (or Ingenieur Buero Stengel GmbH). Born 22 August 1936, in Bochum, Germany, he first worked on amusement park rides in collaboration with Anton Schwarzkopf in 1963. He established his own company, Stengel Engineering, in 1965.

  6. Gerstlauer

    Gerstlauer Amusement Rides GmbH is a German manufacturer of stationary and transportable amusement rides and roller coasters, located in Münsterhausen, Germany.

  7. Ron Toomer

    Ronald Valentine Toomer (born 31 May 1930) is one of the prominent roller coaster designers in the world. He graduated from the University of Nevada with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was on the design team for the heat shield on the Apollo spacecraft. When he joined Arrow Dynamics, he was hired to work on the first all-steel roller coaster, Runaway Mine Ride. He worked for the firm Arrow Dynamics for many years before becoming its President in 1986.

  8. Lamarcus Adna Thompson

    La Marcus Adna Thompson (March 8, 1848 - May 8, 1919 in Ohio, United States) is best known for his early work developing roller coasters, and is sometimes called the "Father of Gravity". Although over his lifetime, Thompson accumulated nearly thirty patents related to roller coaster technologies and built dozens of coasters in the United States, he did not invent the device; that credit goes to John G. Taylor who patented it under the name "Inclined Railway".

  9. Harry Traver

    Harry Guy Traver (25 November 1877 - 1961) was an American engineer and early "Roller Coaster" designer. In 1919 he founded the Traver Engineering Company which created amusement rides, including the Circle Swing and the Tumble Bug. He created the Circle Swing, Tumble Bug, The Caterpillar, Laff in the dark, and Auto Ride. However, his "Giant Cyclone Safety Coasters" were what made Traver the most famous (or notorious) of all coaster designers.

  10. Charles I. D. Looff

    Charles I. D. Looff was a master builder of hand-carved carousels and amusement rides in America. Looff built the first carousel at Coney Island in 1876. During his lifetime, he manufactured some forty carousels, several roller coasters and Ferris wheels, and built California's famous Santa Monica Pier. He became famous for creating the unique Coney Island style of carousel carving.

  11. John C. Allen

    John C. Allen (May 21, 1907 - August 17, 1979) was a roller coaster designer who was responsible for the revival of wooden roller coasters which began in the 1970s. He attended Temple University. He started working for the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1934 as a coaster operator and rose to become president of the company by 1954. He has designed over 25 coasters and has made significant contributions to roller coaster technology.

  12. Herbert Paul Schmeck

    Herbert Paul Schmeck, roller coaster designer, worked for the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. He has been credited with over 50 different roller coaster designs.

  13. Scott Cain

    Scott Cain (born April 2, 1981) is the winner of the third Australian Popstars competition in 2002. In his earlier years he was a member of a band named Funkapation, who released the album "Peanut Butter Brick" in 2000. He first entered the charts with his version of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition", which was featured on a Popstars Final 7 compilation single that peaked at #7. His first solo single after winning the competition was "I'm Moving On", …

  14. Mr. Quintron

    Mr. Quintron is an American musician and leader of the eponymous one-man-band, Mr. Quintron. He is a celebrated nightclub organist and inventor, who has patented a number of his own inventions and often performs at his own private club, the Spellcaster Lodge, located on St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans’ 9th Ward. He frequently performs with his wife, fellow musician and puppeteer, Panacea Pussycat (also known as Miss Pussycat), …

  15. Mary McCartney

    Mary Anna McCartney (born in London on 28 August, 1969) was the first child born to rock photographer Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney of The Beatles. She was named after both grandmothers, Mary Mohin McCartney, who died of breast cancer when Paul was fourteen, and Louise Linder Eastman, who died in a plane crash in 1962.

  16. Ralph E. Chambers

    Ralph E. Chambers (b. March 9 1889 - d. September 1981) was an engineer, inventor and builder of amusement rides in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between 1933 and 1962. As the R. E. Chambers Company, which he formed from the remains of Harry Traver's bankrupt firm, Traver Engineering, where he had been the chief engineer, he built such famous amusement park and carnival ride attractions as The Whip, The Caterpillar, …

  17. Roy Zimmermann

    I just moved to Calafell, near Barcelona, to overtake my fathers old business, a bobsledrun. You find a page with infos on http://www.myspace.com/calafellslide_ or find the link under my top friends. I am looking forward to because it's a brand new part of my life starting in a few days and i got plans to do and things to develope. So it won't be boring at all! So if you're once in spain or barcelona don't hesitate to visit me.

  18. El Toro

    In 2006, thrill seekers at the Worlds largest regional theme park will challenge me, El Toro, the enormous, new wooden roller coaster under construction ( but almost finished) at Six Flags Great Adventure. I incorporate the most daring features of the worlds best wooden roller coasters combined with the smooth speed of a steel coaster,and I'll will be the star of a vibrant, newly-themed area of the park, Plaza del Carnaval.

  19. Thorpe

    My name is Colossus I work full time at Thorpe Park amusement park, on the fringes of London, as a roller coaster.

  20. Tatsu

    My name is Tatsu, Tatsu defines in Japanese a "Flying Beast" Also knows as a Dragon. I was designed by Bolliger & Mabillard. I am located at Six Flags Magic Mountain on top of samurai summit. . I am one of the tallest, fastest, longest, flying coaster experience in the world. I am un-like no other B&M Flying coaster. I was specificly built for Six Flags Magic Mountain.

  21. Nitro
  22. Merle

    I write poems.I write songs.I already finished writting a whole notebook of songs.I sing. I'm doing everything I can to get a band started. I'm on the right track with that so everything is going good on that.I won both poetry and song writting contests. I'm a nice guy but I hate when people uses my kindness as my weakness.I dont smoke. I dont drink and I dont do drugs.Lets just say I learned the hard way why people shoulndn't.I'm easy to get along with.

  23. Shannon Dietrich
  24. Michelle