Ruby Compendium - Notable Rubyists

Chad Fowler – @chadfowler

Pragmatic Programmer, published author, Ruby core committer.

Yukihiro Matsumoto – @yukihiro_matz

The creator of the Ruby Programming Language.

Dave Thomas – @pragdave

Pragmatic Programmer, published author, Ruby core committer.

David Heinemeier Hansson – @dhh

Creator of the Ruby on Rails framework.

why the lucky stiff – @_why

Semi-legendary, prolific Ruby developer, core committer, blogger, book author. Mysteriously disappeared in August 2009.

Yehuda Katz – @wycatz

Rails core committer, lead developer of the Merb project.

Jeremy McAnally – @jm

Published author, blogger. Known for the Little Humble Ruby Book.

Obie Fernandez – @obie

Published author, editor of Addison-Wesley's Professional Ruby Series, enterpreneur.

Ola Bini – @olabini

JRuby core committer, published author, blogger.

Peter Cooper – @peterc

Published author, blogger, enterpreneaur. Creator of Ruby Inside.

Antonio Cangiano – @acangiano

Technical Evangelist, blogger, published author, and Ruby's unofficial benchmarker.

Andy Hunt – @pragmaticandy

Pragmatic Programmer, published author.

Satish Talim – @indianguru

Creator of RubyLearning.com, one of the best resources for learning Ruby.

David A. Black – @david_a_black

Ruby core committer, published.

James Edward Gray II – @jeg2

Ruby core committer, conference organizer, published author and blogger.

Luis Lavena – @luislavena

Ruby core committer, maintainer of RubyInstaller for Windows.

Aaron Petterson – @tenderlove

Ruby core committer, blogger.

Gregg Pollack – @greggpollack

Founder of EnvyLabs, creator of many Ruby and Rails-related podcasts, including Ruby5.

Dan Benjamin – @danbenjamin

Founder of 5by5 Studios, creator and host of The Ruby Show podcast.

Jason Seifer – @jseifer

Co-host of The Ruby Show podcast.

Wayne E. Seguin – @wayneeseguin

Creator of Ruby Version Manager (RVM).

Steve Klabnik – @steveklabnik

Maintainer of Hackety Hack, creator of rstat.us.