- Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime (born 1971) is a U.S. Army Ohio National Guard firefighter who had his name legally changed to Optimus Prime in May of 2001, on his 30th birthday. He claims to have done this because the fictional character of the same name from the "Transformers" was like a father figure when he was growing up. The name appears on his driver's license, military ID, and uniform. Prime's military unit, the 5694th Tactical Crash Rescue Unit, …
- Megan Fox
Megan Denise Fox (born May 16 1986) is an American actress and model, perhaps best known for her roles on the television series "Hope", "Faith", and in the 2007 film "Transformers".
- Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. Bay has achieved financial success with such movies as "Transformers", "Armageddon", "The Rock", "Pearl Harbor", "Bad Boys", and "Bad Boys II". Bay is also one of the members of the LA music video production company Propaganda Films.
- Shia Labeouf
Shia Saide LaBeouf (born June 11, 1986) is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actor and comedian. After growing up in California, he became known with a starring role in the Disney Channel series "Even Stevens". He made the transition to film roles with "Holes", a box office success, and has since appeared in several Hollywood films, including "Constantine" and "The Greatest Game Ever Played".
- Rachael Taylor
Rachael Taylor (born July 11, 1984) is an Australian actress.
- Simon Furman
Simon Furman is a comic book writer, particularly associated with of a number of notable Transformers comics for Marvel UK, Marvel US, Dreamwave, and most recently, IDW. He also wrote the final episode of the Beast Wars: Transformers cartoon, the Transformers Ultimate Fan Guide, and several convention exclusive comics and novellas. His first published work appeared in 1984 in Fleetway's weekly comic, Scream Issue 3, writing the opening episode of "Terror of the Cats".
- Stan Bush
Stan Bush is an American singer whose most notable work include the songs "Dare" and "The Touch" from the soundtrack to the 1986 animated film "Transformers: The Movie", and "She's Got the Power", featured in the American voice dub of the animated series "Sailor Moon".
- Peter Cullen
Peter Cullen, born in Montreal, Canada in 1956, is a voice actor who is best known for providing the voices for Optimus Prime, Ironhide, and Slugslinger in the various "Transformers" television series and the narrator in both American "Voltron" series. In addition, he has played Coran and King Alfor in the Lion "Voltron" series, the transforming spaceship/robot of the Saber Riders in the 80s anime series "Saber Rider And The Star Sheriffs", …
- Omega Supreme
Omega Supreme is the name of two fictional characters from the various Transformers universes.
- Soundwave
Soundwave is the name of three fictional characters from the Transformers universes.
- Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an Australian film and stage actor, as well as a voice actor, best known for his roles as Agent Smith in "The Matrix" and Elrond in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy of films, the title character of "V for Vendetta" and the voice of Megatron in "Transformers".
- Bumblebee
Bumblebee is the name of a fictional character from the various Transformers universes.
- Anthony Anderson
Anthony Alvin Anderson (born August 15, 1970) is an American comedian and actor. Anderson was born in Los Angeles, California, but grew up in Compton, California, to Doris, a telephone operator and actress; his step-father, Sterling Bowman, owns a chain of clothing stores. Anderson is an alumnus of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Anderson first achieved recognition in the NBC television show "Hang Time" (1995–2000).
- Don Murphy
Don Murphy is an American film producer.
- Prowl
Prowl is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers universes. After Optimus Prime and Megatron, and along with Mirage, "Prowl" is one of the most re-used American names in the assorted "Transformers" series, and its use has become almost syonymous with Autobots who possess a police car alternate mode.
- Lorenzo di Bonaventura
"Lorenzo di Bonaventura" (1957) is an American producer. He spent the 1990s as an executive at Warner Bros. Pictures, eventually rising to President of Worldwide Production. His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and shepherding The Matrix into production. His production company di Bonaventura Pictures is based at Paramount Pictures. His recent work is the live-action adaptation of the Transformers franchise, currently in worldwide release.
- Steve Jablonsky
Steve Jablonsky is a music composer for film, television and video games. He has composed the soundtracks to the movies "The Island" (2005), "Steamboy", and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003), was a contributor on Team America World Police (2004) among many others. In addition, he helped compose some of the music to the video game "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty", …
- Constructicons
The Constructicons are a group of fictional characters from the Transformers universe. They were perhaps the most popular of the early Transformers toys due to their unique ability (at the time) to merge into a far larger robot—Devastator.
- Frank Welker
Franklin W. Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He is responsible for a broad spectrum of character voices, noises, and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in American television and motion pictures. As of May 2007, he is listed as number one "All Time Top 100 Stars at the Box office." His work in over 90 films has put him ahead of Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson.
- Tracks
Tracks (Le Sillage in Canada, Puma in Italy) is the name to a single character in the Transformers Universes. The name is now too generic to license in recent times; so the toys creator, Hasbro had to add a 'modifier' - a prefix to the name in order to use it on their product, in this case the name became "Autobot Tracks".
- Kevin Dunn
Kevin Dunn (born February 26, 1956) is an American character actor who has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films since the 1980s. Dunn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Margaret, a nurse, and John Dunn, a musician and poet. His sister is actor/comedian Nora Dunn. Dunn's film appearances include "Small Soldiers", "Stir of Echoes", "Godzilla", "Snake Eyes", "Nixon", "Mad Love", "Ghostbusters II", "Dave", …
- John Rogers
John Rogers is a scriptwriter, comedian, film producer, and comic book writer. Although born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he attended McGill University in Montreal and is better known publicly as a Canadian writer. As a comedian, Rogers was nominated three times for Gemini Awards. Rogers wrote the first draft of the script for the live-action movie "Transformers", scheduled for 2007. He is also working on the "Fatal Frame" film adaptation.
- Don Figueroa
Donald Allan Figueroa is an Filipino American comic artist (penciller). He is best known for his work on many different Transformers designs, for both the defunct Dreamwave Productions and with IDW Publishing. Figueroa has been a long-time fan of Transformers, going so far as to write and illustrate his own comic ("Macromasters") and even built working models of his own characters. Soon after Dreamwave acquired the Transformers license to produce comics, …
- Blaster
Blaster (Broadcast in Japan, Tempo in France, Radiorobot in Italy) is the communications center of the Autobots in the Transformers television and comic series based on the popular toy line produced by Takara and Hasbro.
- Landmine
Landmine is the name to two different fictional characters in the various Transformers universes.
- E. J. Su
E.J. Su is an American comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for his work on IDW Publishing's Transformers (2005) comic book. He has also worked for Image Comics on Tech Jacket (2002) a six issue limited series, with writer Robert Kirkman.
- Jazz
Jazz is a fictional character Transformer who has appeared in multiple toy lines and series. For trademark reasons, Jazz is sometimes referred to as Autobot Jazz or Meister, his Japanese name.
- Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan is a British actor. Mark Ryan is a multi-talented performer, combining his acting, singing, writing, and action direction talents and has enjoyed a successful and eclectic career for some thirty years, working in all aspects of film and television. He did several major musicals in London's West End, …
- Corey Burton
Corey Burton (born August 3, 1955), is an animation voice actor. Burton began his voice career at age 17, doing a sound-alike for Disney as Hans Conreid. He studied radio acting with the legendary Daws Butler "Time for Beany," "Merrie Melodies," "Yogi Bear" for several years, and went on to work with nearly all of the original Hollywood radio actors in classic style radio dramas.
- Jim Shooter
Jim Shooter (born September 27, 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books.
- Bludgeon
Bludgeon is the name of a fictional character in the Transformers universes.
- Thunderwing
Thunderwing is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers toyline.
- Travis van Winkle
Travis Van Winkle (born November 4, 1982 in Victorville, California) is an American actor. He made his debut in "That's So Raven", and in TV has performed in "The O.C.", "MAD TV", "Malcolm in the Middle" and "7th Heaven". Other film credits include one of the leads in David R. Ellis's new film "Asylum", the villain in Universal's "Accepted" and Michael Bay's "Transformers".
- Alex Milne
Alex Milne is a Canadian Comic Book artist best known for his work on Transformers comic books.
- Nelson Shin
Nelson Shin is the founder and president of Akom Production Co., Ltd., in Seoul, South Korea. He founded Akom in 1985. In the 1970s, Shin worked as an animator at the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, where he worked on the "Pink Panther" films. He is also credited with creating the glowing lightsaber blade used by Jedi Knights in the first "Star Wars" movie released and other subsequent Star Wars films.
- Bob Budiansky
Bob Budiansky is a comic book writer, best known for his work on Marvel's "Transformers" comic. He also created the Marvel character Sleepwalker and wrote all 33 issues of that comic. Budiansky is considered a "father" of Transformers lore. He was part of the birth of the line that celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2004. Responsible for much of writing of the original Marvel "Transformer" comic, Budiansky went on to become a legend among Transformers fans.
- Guido Guidi
Guido Guidi is an Italian comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for his work on Dreamwave Productions' line of Transformers comics, particularly the "Armada" and "Energon" titles. He has also drawn some covers for IDW Publishing's new title: "The Transformers: Infiltration" and was the principal artist for "The Transformers: Evolutions" tale "Hearts of Steel".
- Cannonball
Cannonball is the name of a character in the Transformers: Cybertron toy line.
- Michael Bell
Michael Patrick Bell is an actor and voice over artist, born April 10, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York. Most commonly credited in video games, animated movies and television series. He is married to actress Victoria Carroll. Bell is perhaps most famous for playing the voice of Drew Pickles (Angelica’s dad), Chaz Finster (Chuckie’s dad), and Boris (Didi’s father), from the "Rugrats" and "All Grown Up!" television shows.
- Andrew Wildman
Andrew Wildman (often credited as Andy Wildman) is a British artist, best known for his work in the comics field in the 1980s, mainly for Marvel Comics. Wildman cut his teeth on Marvel UK's titles in the late 1980s, including "Galaxy Rangers", "Thundercats", "The Real Ghostbusters" and, perhaps most notably, "Transformers". His first strip work on Transformers came in #198 for the story "Cold Comfort and Joy".