- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …
- John Lasseter
John A. Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. Widely considered an innovative genius, many praise him as the "current Walt Disney."
- Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American animated films director, screenwriter, as well as a voice actor. His most notable film work is writing and directing Pixar's "Finding Nemo," which received an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2004. Stanton is now working on WALL-E set for release in 2008.
- Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley Bird (born on September 11, 1957 in Kalispell, Montana) is an American Academy Award-winning animator who is known for writing and directing the 1999 Warner Bros. film "The Iron Giant" and the critical and box office hits "The Incredibles" (2004) and "Ratatouille" (2007) from Disney/Pixar.
- Joss Whedon
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and "Firefly". He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987.
- John Ratzenberger
John Deszo Ratzenberger (born April 6 1947) is an American actor. Ratzenberger is perhaps best known for his role as "Clifford C. 'Cliff' Clavin, Jr." in the "Cheers" (1982) TV series.
- Randy Newman
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an Academy Award- winning American songwriter, arranger, singer and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores. Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a "character" far removed from Newman's own biography, often utilizing the literary device of an unreliable narrator.
- Thomas Newman
Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Academy Award-nominated film score composer. He is a member of a film-scoring dynasty in Hollywood that includes his father Alfred Newman, his uncle Lionel Newman, his brother David Newman, and his cousins Joey Newman and Randy Newman (who is best known as a singer and songwriter).
- Lee Unkrich
Lee Unkrich (born August 8, 1967 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio) is an American director and film editor. He is a longtime member of the creative team at Pixar, where he started in 1994 as a film editor. He later moved into directing, as co-director of "Toy Story 2", "Monsters, Inc.", and "Finding Nemo" (2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature). He is currently directing Toy Story 3, set for release in 2010.
- Joe Ranft
Joseph Henry "Joe" Ranft was a magician, animation storyboard artist, and voice actor who worked for Pixar and Disney.
- Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino (pronounced juh-kee-no) (born 1967, Riverside, New Jersey) is an American soundtrack composer who has composed several multi-award winning scores for many popular movies, television series and video games. His scores are notable for their usage of brass. He attended the Evening Division at the Juilliard School; as well as the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he acquired a degree in film production and a minor degree in History.
- Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson (born Craig Richard Nelson on April 4, 1944 in Spokane, Washington) is an American actor. He has appeared in numerous motion pictures. He starred in three television shows, "Coach", "Call to Glory" and "The District". He also provided the voice of Mr. Incredible in the 2004 Pixar film, "The Incredibles". Due to the fact that there was another Craig Richard Nelson registered with the Screen Actors Guild, …
- David Silverman
David Silverman (born on 15 March 1957 in New York City, New York) is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series "The Simpsons", where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all of the original Simpsons "Tracey Ullman shorts". Started his education at the University of Maryland, College Park for two years, focusing on art.
- Jan Pinkava
Jan Jaroslav Pinkava is the director and writer of the Pixar Oscar-winning short film "Geri's Game" and the originator and co-director of Pixar's 2007 film "Ratatouille". He is the third-born of four children of the Czech polymath Václav Pinkava alias Jan Křesadlo. The family emigrated to Britain in 1969, where he obtained British citizenship. He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School, showing interest and talent in the arts, music, drama and sculpture.
- Brad Lewis
Brad Lewis is a film producer. His latest film to produce is Pixar's Ratatouille (2007).
- Bob Peterson
Bob Peterson (1961-) is an animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor. He was nominated for an Oscar for his screenwriting of "Finding Nemo". Bob is a co-director of "Up", a Pixar film to be released in 2009. He also provided the voices of Roz in "Monsters Inc.", and Mr. Ray in "Finding Nemo". Bob Peterson was born in January of 1961, in Wooster, Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Northern University, …
- Peter Docter
Peter Docter was born on August 10, 1968 in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. He is a film director, best known for "Monsters, Inc.", a Pixar film. He graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Bloomington, Minnesota. He is also a former member of the Mentor Connection. Peter Docter has been an integral part of some of the most seminal works of Pixar Studios, notably "Toy Story", "Toy Story 2", "A Bugs Life" and "Monsters, Inc.".
- John Musker
John Musker (born November 8 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American animation director. Musker is one half of America's leading contemporary animation team with Ron Clements. He first met Clements during the production of "The Fox and the Hound" (1981), where he worked as a character animator under Clements. Musker later worked with Clements again on the ambitious animated flop "The Black Cauldron" (1985).
- Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews is a storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. He studied animation at the Character Animation Program at CalArts.He also considered to be Brad Bird's "right-hand man". Some of his student films has been featured at Moma's exhibition "TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures"
- Alexander Gould
Alexander Jerome Gould (born May 4, 1994) is an American child and voice actor.
- Ash Brannon
Ash Brannon was a directing animator for Pixar's first feature length animated film, "Toy Story". He was co-director on the sequel, "Toy Story 2" and is now directing the CG-penguin-tastic animated film, " Surf's Up" - for which Zooey Deschanel, James Woods, Jeff Bridges and Jon Heder are providing voices. According to his commentary on Toy Story 2, his licence plate ID is LZTYBRN, the same as Al McWhiggin in that same movie.
- Ronnie del Carmen
Ronnie del Carmen (born in the Philippines, December 31, 1959) is an animation storyboard and story artist. Most recently he did Story Supervisor duties on Pixar's "Finding Nemo".
- Robert
Robert (Bob) Barton is recognized as the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700. He directed a research lab for Burroughs Corporation in La Jolla, CA. He also taught, from 1968-1973, as a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah with David C. Evans, Ivan Sutherland and Thomas Stockham.
- Ralph Eggleston
Ralph Eggleston is an art director at Pixar Animation Studios. He directed the Academy Award-winning short "For the Birds", which premiered alongside with "Monsters Inc". He studied at the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.
- Scott Morse
Scott Morse, sometimes known as C. Scott Morse, is an animator, filmmaker, and comic book artist/writer. Morse created "Soulwind", a story serialised in a sequence of graphic novels, and nominated for both the Eisner and Ignatz awards. His comic book work includes "Southpaw", "Soulwind", "Volcanic Revolver", "Magic Pickle", "Spaghetti Western", "Visitations", "Ancient Joe", …
- Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter best known for writing the 2006 film "Little Miss Sunshine". He has been hired by Pixar Animation Studios and is currently writing "Toy Story 3". Michael Arndt has won awards for Best Original Screenplay from Kansas City Film Critics, The Writers Guild of America and The Academy Awards.<BR> In order to write full-time and complete his screenplay for "Little Miss Sunshine", …
- Alvy Ray Smith
Alvy Ray Smith III (born 8 September 1943) is a noted pioneer in computer graphics. In 1965, he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University. In 1970 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, with a dissertation on cellular automata. From 1969 to 1973 he was an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at New York University.
- Guido Quaroni
Guido Quaroni is a computer modeller at Pixar Animation Studios. He provided voices for two of Pixar's feature films.
- Bud Luckey
William "Bud" Luckey (born in 1934 in Billings, Montana) is an American cartoonist, animator, singer, musician, and composer. He is best known for his work at Pixar Animation Studios as a character designer for "Toy Story", "Boundin","Toy Story 2", "A Bug's Life", "Monsters, Inc.", "Finding Nemo" and "Cars". He is also beloved by generations of Sesame Street viewers for his numerous short animated films on that program.
- William Joyce
William Joyce (b. December 11 1957) is an American author, illustrator, and filmmaker. Newsweek has called him one of the top 100 people to watch in the new millennium. His illustrations have appeared on numerous New Yorker covers and his paintings are displayed at national museums and art galleries. He lives with his wife and their two children in Shreveport, Louisiana.
- Bobby McFerrin
Robert "Bobby" McFerrin Jr. (born New York City, March 11, 1950) is a jazz-influenced a cappella vocal performer and conductor.
- Spencer Fox
Spencer Fox (born 1993) is an American voice actor. He provided the voice of Dashiell Robert Parr (a.k.a. the Incredible Dash) in Disney & Pixar's film, "The Incredibles", and again in the Disney on Ice show, "Disney Presents Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure". He also plays the voices of Jim and Tim Possible for the fourth season of "Kim Possible". He is in the eighth grade as of December 2006, …
- Brenda Chapman
Brenda Chapman Lima is a staff member of Pixar. A native of the state of Illinois, Chapman's interest in animation as a teenager led her to study and then at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). During her summer breaks, she began her professional career working in syndicated television animation. After graduating with a BFA in Character Animation, she was a story trainee on Disney's successful animated film "The Little Mermaid".
- Steve Purcell
Steve Purcell is an American illustrator and writer best known as the creator of comic book characters Sam & Max, of the Freelance Police - a dog and rabbit crime-fighting duo.
- Jim Reardon
Jim Reardon is a director and storyboard consultant, best known for his work on the animated TV series "The Simpsons". He has directed over 30 episodes of the series, and was between season 9 and season 15 credited as a Supervising Director. Reardon was also worked on "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures" and "Tiny Toon Adventures". Attended the California Institute of the Arts in 1982.
- Richard Kind
Richard Kind is an actor best known for his roles in the hit sitcoms "Mad About You" and "Spin City". He is a 1974 graduate of Pennsbury High School and a 1978 graduate of Northwestern University. He is also an alumnus of The Second City Chicago where one of his cast mates was Dan Castellaneta. Richard attended Pennsbury High School with fellow thespian, Robert Curtis-Brown. He created the role of Addison Mizner in Stephen Sondheim’s "Bounce", …
- Katherine Helmond
Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1928, Galveston, Texas) is an American film, theater and television actress. Katherine Helmond is best-known for her role as "Jessica Tate", the addled matriarch of the TV sitcom "Soap". She was a lead player on the series from 1977 until it was cancelled in 1981. She later starred as "Mona Robinson" in the sitcom "Who's the Boss?" with Judith Light, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro, and Tony Danza.
- Edwin Catmull
Edwin Catmull, Ph.D. (born 1945 in West Virginia) is an Academy Award winning computer scientist and current president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. As a computer scientist, Catmull has contributed to many important developments in computer graphics.
- Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher and professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, and scientific illustration and visualization. He received a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Wisconsin in 1985. In the 1980s, he worked at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory, …
- Loren Carpenter
Loren C. Carpenter (born 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer. He is co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. One of his many inventions is the A-buffer hidden surface algorithm. In 1980 when he was working at The Boeing Company he presented at SIGGRAPH a two-minute animation showing a very complicated landscape called Vol Libre, then he was hired to work at Lucasfilm's Computer Division.