- Larry Wall
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976. Wall is the author of the rn Usenet client and the nearly universally used patch program.
- Hille Perl
Hille Perl (born in Bremen in 1965) is a German virtuoso performer of the viola da gamba and lirone. She is considered to be one of the world's finest viola da gamba players, specializing in solo and ensemble music of the 17th and 18th centuries. She has a particular interest in French Baroque repertoire for seven-string bass viola da gamba, which she plays with an almost vocal, yet refined tone.
- Gisella Perl
Gisella Perl was a Jewish gynecologist who lived in Sighet, Hungary until 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary and deported its Jewish population. She was deported along with her family to Auschwitz where she lost both her husband and only son, as well as her extended family and parents. She was given the task of working as a doctor within the camp, helping the inmates through their disease and discomfort, which she had to do without the bare necessities: antiseptic, …
- Martin Lewis Perl
Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927 in New York) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. His parents were Jewish emigrants to the US from the Polish area of Russia. Perl is a 1948 graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now known as Polytechnic University) in Brooklyn, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1955.
- William Perl
William Perl, whose real name was William Mutterperl, was a student at the City College of New York. As a member of the Steinmetz Club, the campus branch of the Young Communist League, he met and befriended Julius Rosenberg, Morton Sobell and Joel Barr. Perl graduated with a degree in engineering in 1939, and in 1940 began working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at their Langley Army Air Base research facility in Hampton, …
- Tom Christiansen
Tom Christiansen (also nicknamed "tchrist" or occasionally "thoth") is a well-known Unix developer and user especially known for his many contributions to the Perl programming language. He was the author of much of the core Perl documentation, including the manual pages perlfaq and perltoot. In 1999, he was one of the original recipients of the White Camel Awards from Perl Mongers for his contribution to Perl's documentation.
- Damian Conway
Damian Conway (born 1964) was, until August 2005, an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (formerly Department of Computer Science) at Monash University. He is a prominent member of the Perl community and exponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. Damian completed his B.Sc. (with honours) and Ph.D. at Monash. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to CPAN and Perl 6 language design, …
- Rich Salz
Rich Salz is currently Chief Security Officer of Datapower, which was recently acquired by IBM. He has made numerous contributions to recent work on XML and SOAP specifications, particularly involving security. For many years, he spelled his name 'Rich $alz' and was an early contributor to the free software movement. In 1986 he replaced John P. Nelson as editor of the original "moderated" Usenet group for free source code, mod.sources (later renamed to comp.sources.unix).
- Brian D Foy
brian d foy (born 1970) is the publisher and editor of "The Perl Review", co-author of books on Perl including "Learning Perl" and "Intermediate Perl", founder of Perl Mongers, and a veteran of the Iraq War. He is the author of multiple Perl modules on CPAN. He is a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services. He prefers that his name be rendered all lowercase with no punctuation. When spoken, the 'd' is silent.
- Simon Cozens
Simon Cozens (b. 1978) is a British Perl programmer, author, blogger and missionary. He is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford (where he studied Japanese) and All Nations Christian College (where he studied theology and missiology). He is the author of over 100 modules on CPAN, and several books on Perl programming. For several years, he was the administrator of Perl.com, a Perl webzine run by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Mark Jason Dominus
Mark Jason Dominus (born April 2, 1969) is one of the founders of Kibology and a leading Perl programmer. He was the managing editor of perl.com and was a columnist for "The Perl Journal" for several years. Mark's other Perl-related articles have appeared in magazines such as "Wired" and "IEEE Software". He recently published the book "Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs".
- Ward Cunningham
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is the American computer programmer who invented the wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham (commonly known by its domain name, c2.com), on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository. He currently lives in Beaverton, Oregon.
- Shlomi Fish
Shlomi Fish (born 5 May, 1977, in Petah Tiqwa, Israel) is an Israeli software developer, essayist and writer. He is primarily known as the author of "Freecell Solver", a popular ANSI C library for solving several types of Solitaire games; of several Perl related projects, including several CPAN modules; and as the writer of some essays about computing and other subjects.
- Jeffrey Friedl
Jeffrey Friedl (born 1966, "Friedl" sounds like "free-dole") is a software engineer known for his book on regular expressions, "Mastering Regular Expressions" (O'Reilly 1997, 2002, 2006).
- Rael Dornfest
Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Values of n. Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes - some of which are actually good.
- Chip Salzenberg
Chip Salzenberg is an American programmer mostly noted for his involvement in the Perl and Free Software communities. Salzenberg has been involved with Perl development for over 15 years, and with Free Software for more than 20 years. In 1996 and 1997, he was project manager for Perl 5.004, a Perl release widely praised for its high quality. Salzenberg went on to teach Perl and write professionally. He was one of the founding board members of the Open Source Initiative, …
- Brad Fitzpatrick
Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980 in Iowa), often seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz, is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of many popular free software projects. Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and majored in computer science and minored in German at the University of Washington in Seattle.
- Audrey Tang
Audrey Tang (born April 18, 1981; formerly known as Autrijus Tang) is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing."
- Elizabeth Castro
Elizabeth Castro is best known as the author of books aimed to educate the reader on particular aspects of website development, such as HTML, Javascript, or Perl.
- Sean M. Burke
Sean Michael Burke is a Perl programmer with a background in linguistics. He was a columnist for "The Perl Journal" and has written several dozen CPAN modules, as well as the O'Reilly Media books "Perl & LWP" and "RTF Pocket Guide".
- David Megginson
David Megginson (born 1964) is a Canadian computer software consultant and developer, specializing in open source software development and application. He was the lead developer and original maintainer of the Simple API for XML, or SAX, a leading streaming API for XML. Megginson has been part of the SGML and then XML communities since 1991.
- Benjamin Trott
Benjamin Trott (born September 22, 1977) is a co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad. The company name comes from the fact that Trott and co-founder/wife Mena G. Trott were born six days apart. Trott is chief technical officer of Six Apart. He is a regular contributor to CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and has written for Perl.com and contributed to "Essential Blogging".
- Raphael Manfredi
Raphaël Manfredi has been the author of many open-source programs since 1990. He is currently the main software architect of gtk-gnutella but has also made numerous contributions to Perl.
- Dave Miller
Dave Miller (born 1972) is an American software developer best known for his work on the Bugzilla bug tracking tool developed at Mozilla.Org. He voluntarily assumed the role of maintainer after the previous maintainer, Tara Hernandez, stepped down. He is currently employed by the Mozilla Corporation. Owing in part to his Bugzilla development experience, Dave is an expert in Perl as well as in databases, including MySQL.
- Poul-Henning Kamp
Poul-Henning Kamp (sometimes known as "PHK") is a Danish FreeBSD developer, responsible for implementation of the widely used MD5 password hash algorithm, a vast quantity of systems code, including the FreeBSD GEOM storage layer, GBDE cryptographic storage transform, part of the UFS2 file system implementation, FreeBSD Jails, malloc library, clock/time code, and the Beerware license.
- Joseph N. Hall
Joseph N. Hall (born January 8, 1966) is an American author, software developer and programming consultant. Hall is known in the Perl programming community as the author of the book Effective Perl Programming, with Randal L. Schwartz, and as a contributor of software to the CPAN. In the mid 1970s Hall received US media coverage as a child prodigy and as a survivor of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Nikolai Bezroukov
Nikolai Bezroukov is a Senior Internet Security Analyst at BASF Corporation, Professor of Computer Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University (New Jersey, United States) and webmaster of Open Source Software University, a volunteer technical site for the United Nations SDNP program that helps with Internet connectivity and distributes Linux to developing countries.
- Randal L. Schwartz
Randal L. Schwartz (born November 22, 1961) is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant. Schwartz is the co-author of several widely used books about Perl, a programming language for computers, and has written regular columns about Perl for several computer magazines. He popularized the Just another Perl hacker signature programs. He is a founding board member of the Perl Mongers, the worldwide Perl grassroots advocacy organization.
- Loïc Dachary
Loïc Dachary is a pioneer of the GNU Project and notably active in free software development since 1987. He developed the first French search engine, co-founded FSF Europe and FSF France, and is an outspoken supporter of freedom and cooperation for the Free Software Community.
- Batara Kesuma
Batara Kesuma is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of mixi, a Japanese social networking site. He was born 1979 in Indonesia. He was graduated from Engineering division of Takushoku University. He proposed mixi in December 2003, and was responsible for creating the corporation. He is a well known for advocating the use of the open source LAMP stack, Perl, MySQL and the Apache Webserver.
- John Graham-Cumming
John Graham-Cumming is a British programmer best known for the open source POPFile email filtering program, although he maintains a number of other open source and proprietary programs written primarily in Perl, C and C++. He studied at Oxford University gaining a BA/MA in Mathematics and Computation and a DPhil in computer security. Afterwards he worked for a number of start ups in the UK and US.
- Dick Hardt
Dick Hardt (May 28, 1963) is the founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. He is an advocate of Identity 2.0. Hardt has spoken at tech events such as Web 2.0, Supernova, Digital ID World, ETech, OSCON, Anti-Phishing Working Group, at New Yo
- Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon (real name Yeshe Perl) is a rap artist from Hollywood, California. His debut self-titled solo album was released Nov. 7, 2006 on Interscope/Shoot to Kill Records in association with MySpace Records. Avalon blends dark, lewd, and humorous lyrical hooks with hip-hop beats. Frequent topics of Avalon's songs are his experiences with substance abuse and prostitution. His family upbringing was tumultuous and both he and his parents were involved with drugs.
- Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) co-founded the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes. Together they have grown the site to be used by more than 25 million people. Dustin currently serves as the VP of Engineering of Facebook and works out of the company's Palo Alto office.
- Chris Baldone
Information Technology Manager with broad technical experience and background relating to networking infrastructure, integrated systems, and support of enterprise solutions. Interested in companies seeking to expand with focus on people, technology, and process improvement.
- Michael Tabolsky
Vincent: What happens after that?Lance: I'm kinda curious about that myself.
- Ericka Hanselman
I am a Recruiter. I am have experience sourcing for Healthcare Professionals, SSL Developers, JAVA Developers, WAP, Forensics and PCI Consultants, Strategy Consultants, SAP, Siebel, Oracle, Sales Executives, and Solution Architects.
- Perl D. Decker
Perl D. Decker (September 10, 1875 - August 22, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. Born on a farm near Coolville, Ohio, Decker moved with his parents to a farm near Hollis, Kansas, in 1879. He attended the public schools of Cloud County, and Park College, Parkville, Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1897. He was graduated in law from the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1899. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice at Joplin, …
- Anja Perl
My Films; 2005 "fabel" Live Action/3D Animation Shortfilm; Dir: Anja Perl + Max Stolzenberg; 2004 "no limits " -Spot 3D Animation Spot; Dir: Heidi Wittlinger + Anja Perl + Max Stolzenberg; 2004 "Puca" Live Action/Stop Motion/3D Shortfilm; Dir. Animation: Anja Perl; 2003 "`oby" Live Action/3D Animation Shortfilm; Dir: Anja Perl + Max Stolzenberg; 1998 "idölle" Stop Motion, Shortfilm; Dir: Anja Perl + Petra Schröder
- Vivian Perl