Henry Spencer

male
Henry Spencer is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote 'regex', a widely-used Library for regular expressions, and co-wrote...

Alvin Schwartz

male, deceased (1992)
Alvin Schwartz (born April 25 1927, in Brooklyn, New York; died March 14, 1992) was the author of books dedicated to and dealing with topics such...

Ashurbanipal

male
Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal or Sardanapal, in Akkadian "Aššur-bāni-apli", (b. 685 BCE – d. 627 BCE) (reigned 669 – ca. 631 BC or 627 BC), the son of...
Jon Udell

Jon Udell

male, 53 years old
Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and groupware evangelist. He has been an independent consultant, was BYTE...
Brian Paul

Brian Paul

male
Brian Paul is a computer programmer who wrote and continues to maintain the source code for the Open Source Mesa graphics library. Paul began...
Kate Sharpley

Kate Sharpley

female, deceased (1978)
Kate Sharpley (1895-1978) was a Deptford-born anarchist and anti-World War I activist. She is chiefly known today through the work of the library...
Apollodorus

Apollodorus

male
Apollodorus (born ca. 180 BC) was a Greek language grammarian, a writer most famous for his verse "Chronicle" of Greek history from the fall of...

John Avery

male
John Keith Avery was the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police from 1984 to 1991. He succeeded Cecil Roy Abbott to the position and was...
Stef Penney

Stef Penney

female, 40 years old
Stef Penney (born 1969 in Edinburgh) is a film-maker and writer. She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in...

Henry Reynolds

male, 71 years old
Henry Reynolds (born March 1, 1938) is an eminent Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European...