Somewhat related: the origins of the title Benevolent Dictator-For-Life

https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=235725

I have to say though, and this probably is me because I'm not that deeply invested into the Python community, but I don't really know anyone else in the Python community who represents the core language. In most other programming language projects of this size there are a multiple people who are public faces of the language itself, beyond the first people who designed it.