- Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life", meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary.
- Mark Pilgrim
Mark Pilgrim is the author of Dive into Python, a guide to the Python programming language. He is an advocate of Free Software and Dive into Python is published under the GNU Free Documentation License. Mark Pilgrim was formerly an accessibility architect in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group. In March 2007, he started working at Google.
- Alex Martelli
Alex Martelli is a member of the Python Software Foundation and works, as of 2006, as "Über Tech Lead" for Google, Inc., in Mountain View, California. He holds a laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica from Bologna University (1980), and is the author of "Python in a Nutshell", co-editor of the "Python Cookbook", and has written other (mostly Python-related) materials.
- David Mertz
David Mertz (born 1964) is an author and columnist for IBM's developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, O'Reilly's ONLamp, and other online publications. Formerly an academic philosopher who specialized in postmodernism, he is currently vice-president and chief technology officer of the Open Voting Consortium and serves on the IEEE "Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange" project. He maintains Gnosis Utilities, a widely used public domain Python package.
- Greg Stein
Greg Stein (b. March 16, 1967 in Portland, OR), living in Palo Alto, CA, USA, is an engineering manager at Google. He has prior to that worked for Oracle Corporation, E-shop, Microsoft and CollabNet. He has been involved in free software projects like Subversion, WebDAV, Python and several Apache projects. He is also a director and past chairman of the Apache Software Foundation.
- Terence Bayler
Terence Bayler (born 24 January 1930) is a New Zealand actor. He played the Bloody Baron in the Harry Potter movies. He also has a small role as Mr. Gregory in "Monty Python's Life of Brian" (1979), and plays Lucien in Python member Terry Gilliam's third directorial effort, "Time Bandits" (1981). Bayler was born in Wanganui to Amy (Allomes) and Harold Bayler, a stagehand.
- Travis Watkins
Travis Watkins (born December 5, 1986) is an American computer programmer who worked with Cody Brocious and Jon Lech Johansen to create the Python program PyMusique. He is also the creator of Alacarte, a Freedesktop.org compliant menu editor.
- George Wells
George Wells was a professional wrestler. Wells made a transition from the Canadian Football League to the World Wrestling Federation. He was mostly used as a jobber. His most famous moment was at WrestleMania 2 when Jake Roberts put his pet python Damien on Wells, causing Wells to foam at the mouth.
- Mariusz Pudzianowski
Mariusz Pudzianowski (born on February 7, 1977 in Biała Rawska, Poland) is a leading strongman competitor. He is sometimes known by the nicknames Pudzian, Dominator, Super Mariusz, Pyton ("Python") and Duży Pyton ("Big Python").
- Cody Brocious
Cody Brocious is a computer programmer who helped Travis Watkins and Jon Lech Johansen developing the Python program PyMusique. He's also a developer of the Alky Project, a tool that converts a Windows executable to a Mac OS X or Linux binary. The Alky Project is maintained by Falling Leaf Systems, LLC, which he co-founded in 2006.
- Keith Coogan
Keith Coogan (b. January 13 1970, Palm Springs, California) is an American actor. His grandfather was Jackie Coogan. Coogan was born Keith Eric Mitchell, and began acting in 1975, then changed his name to "Keith Coogan" in 1986, just two years after the passing of his grandfather in 1984. He appeared in 1970s television shows like "The Waltons", "The Love Boat", "Fantasy Island", "Laverne and Shirley", "Mork & Mindy", …
- Milind Soman
Milind Soman is an Indian supermodel and actor. Born on 4 november 1965. He was born in a Maharashtrian Chitpavan Brahmin family in Scotland and lived in England for seven years before leaving for India. His breakthrough came with Thackersey fabrics. He was briefly engaged to model Madhu Sapre with whom he had done a controversial Tuff advertisement in which both were shown apprently wearing only shoes and a python. Soman is also an actor.
- Peter J. Landin
Peter Landin is a British computer scientist. He is responsible for inventing the SECD machine and the ISWIM programming language, defining the Landin "off-side rule" and for coining the term "syntactic sugar". The off-side rule allows bounding scope declaration by use of white spaces as seen in languages such as Haskell and Python.
- Budi Sudarsono
Budi Sudarsono (born in Kediri, East Java 19 September 1979) is an Indonesian footballer. He normally plays as an attacking midfielder or can be a striker and his height is 174 cm. He plays for the Indonesia national football team and he scored a goal in 2004 Asian Cup for Indonesia against Qatar in group A and Indonesia ended up winning 2-1. It is Indonesia's first win in Asian Cup history since their first participation in Asian Cup 1996.
- Sir Piers Lauder 13th Baronet
Sir Piers Robert Dick Lauder, 13th Baronet of the Fountainhall creation (the family having now sold this estate) was born on 3 October 1947 at Nicosia, Cyprus, where his father Sir George Andrew Dick-Lauder, 12th Baronet was an officer serving in the British Army. From 1974 until 2006, Sir Piers Dick Lauder (who only uses the surname Lauder) was a programmer and Computer Systems Officer in the Basser Department of Computer Science at Sydney University, New South Wales, …
- José Alberto De Oliveira Anchieta
José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta (variations José d'Anchieta, José Anchieta, José de Anchieta - b. October 9, 1832 in Lisbon, Portugal, d. September 14, 1897 in Caconda, Angola) was a 19th century Portuguese explorer and naturalist who, between 1866 and 1897, travelled extensively in Angola, Africa, collecting animals and plants.
- John Kerry
John Kerry is a senator from Massachusetts. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2004.
- David Sapiro
Pilot Systems CEO, Open Source expert. Specialized in Zope application server and Plone CMS. ---President of IBM Open Source Guide Share Organization--- VP of Silicon Sentier--- Secretary of FNILL (Open Source Industry Federation in France) --- Member of the Plone Foundation
- Rigo Ketelings
"home is where the heart is".. .
- Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has the distinction of being the only American-born Python, as the rest of the group are all British by birth.
- Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.
- Chris Lott
Chris Lott (b. October 23, 1970) was the co-founder of Eclectica Magazine along with Tom Dooley (editor) in 1996. Chris was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and bounced around between Fairbanks and Tok, Alaska before graduating from Tok High School in 1988.
- Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 - October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and the title character in "Monty Python's Life of Brian".
- Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, on 1 February 1942) is a British comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team. Jones was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he was head boy; he graduated in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. While there he performed comedy with Michael Palin, …
- George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, author and sitarist best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. Following the band's demise, Harrison had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys super group where he was known as both Nelson Wilbury and Spike Wilbury.
- Connie Booth
Constance Booth (known as "Connie"), born 1944 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, is an American writer and actress best known for her appearances on British television, and particularly for her work with John Cleese.
- Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver (born Amelia Fiona J. Driver on January 31 1970) is an English actress and singer-songwriter, born in London to Ronnie Driver and his wife Gaynor. She first came to broad public attention when she played the lead role in "Circle of Friends". She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film "Good Will Hunting".
- Jamie D. Pedersen
- Carol Cleveland
Carol Cleveland (born January 13, 1942, London, England) is a British comic actress, most notable for her appearances as the only significant female performer on "Monty Python's Flying Circus".
- Marty Feldman
Martin Alan "Marty" Feldman (8 July 1934 - 2 December 1982) was an English writer, comedian and BAFTA award winning actor, famous for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease.
- Erica Ogrady
#1 Erica on Google - Most Days. BarCamp Enthusiast, Creativity Coach, Web Design/Developer, Social Media Maven, and all around Nice Gal.
- Neil Innes
Neil James Innes (born 9 December 1944, in Danbury, Essex) is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles.
- Bjørn Stabell
Business Manager; Entrepreneur; CTO; Agile practitioner; Python programmer
- Martin Lewis
Martin Neil Lewis (born July 24, 1952 in Ashtead, Surrey, England) is a US-based humorist, writer, radio/TV host, producer and marketing strategist.
- Basil Pao
Basil Pao is a Hong Kong-based photographer who is perhaps best known for his work as the stills photographer on the BBC filming teams that made Michael Palin’s TV travel programs.
- Lesley Judd
Lesley Judd (born 20 December 1946, London, UK) is an English actress and TV presenter, best known as a long-serving host of the BBC children's programme "Blue Peter". Replacing Valerie Singleton in 1972, she presented alongside John Noakes and Peter Purves, a partnership that lasted until 1978 and remains the show's longest-running line-up.
- Max Wall
Max Wall (12 March 1908 - 21 May 1990) was a British comedian, born in Brixton, London, the son of the successful music-hall entertainer Jack (Jock) Lorimer and Stella. In 1919, he was saved from death by his cast iron bed-frame, but both his younger brother and their nanny, were killed by a gas bomb from a German Zeppelin that destroyed their house.
- Gwen Taylor
Gwen Taylor (born 19 February 1939 in Derby, England) is an actress. Trained at East 15 Acting School, London, she has appeared in many British television programmes, including "Z Cars", "Murder Most Horrid", "Yes, Prime Minister", "Inspector Morse" "Midsomer Murders" and "Belonging". However, she is most famous for her roles in two sitcoms: as Amy Pearce in "Duty Free" from 1984 to 1986, …
- Ron Obvious
Ron Obvious is a seminal Vancouver punk-rock producer and engineer whose résumé includes early singles by D.O.A. and The Subhumans. He is a longtime friend of Katie Sketch, lead vocalist for The Organ. Ron Obvious is also a Monty Python character played by Terry Jones. In the sketch, Ron Obvious, encouraged by his manager Luigi Vercotti (Michael Palin), undertakes several impossible tasks for publicity: Jumping the English Channel.
- Adrian Poynton
Adrian Poynton is a British writer, comedian and actor. He has performed Stand Up since 1999 when he was a finalist in The Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award. He is more often than not used as a compère due to his open and friendly stage manner. Poynton is also a writer having won a Fringe First Award in 2003 for his Play "A Very Naughty Boy" about the life of Monty Python's Graham Chapman.