Sean Egan

Sean Egan

male, 27 years old
Sean Egan is the project leader of Pidgin, a popular instant messaging client. He is also a software engineer at Google, where he has worked on...
Mark Spencer

Mark Spencer

male, 32 years old
Mark Spencer (born April 8, 1977) is a computer engineer and is the original author of the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim, the L2TP...
Lee Tonouchi

Lee Tonouchi

male
Lee Tonouchi is a Hawaiʻi born writer and editor, sometimes referred to as the "Pidgin Guerilla" because of his strong advocacy of Pidgin. T...
Hugo Schuchardt

Hugo Schuchardt

male, deceased (1927)
Hugo Ernst Mario Schuchardt (4 February 1842, Gotha (Thüringen) – 21 april 1927, Graz (Styria) was an eminent linguist, best-known for his work in...
Prince Nico Mbarga

Prince Nico Mbarga

male, deceased (1997)
Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 - 24 June, 1997) was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki,...
John Lynch

John Lynch

male
John Lynch is a linguist specializing in Oceanic languages. He is a professor and the Director of the Pacific Languages Unit at the University of...

Sarah Thomason

female
Sarah Grey Thomason (known as "Sally") is a linguist known particularly for her work on language contact, historical linguistics, pidgins and...

Bill Tapia

male
Born on New Year’s Day, 1908, Uncle Bill “Tappy” Tapia is a diminutive man of Portuguese decent with a thick Hawai‘ian Pidgin accent, a radiant...
Frank Martinus Arion

Frank Martinus Arion

male, 73 years old
Frank Martinus Arion, pseudonym of Frank Efraim Martinus, was born on December 17, 1936 in Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles. He is an author a...

Sandra Lee McKay

female
Sandra Lee McKay is a sociolinguist at San Francisco State University. She has contributed to the study of pidgin and creole languages such as...