Isn't JWZ mainly famous for Netscape (and later the DNA Lounge)? I didn't know he had anything to do with Emacs until I Googled to see what that was about.
> Isn't JWZ mainly famous for Netscape (and later the DNA Lounge)?
Depends on when you were born.
Or what you've read. I first met Zawinski through Coders at Work and he immediately became my hero. Working on Lucid/XEmacs was but one reason why.
I agree, several of those people are famous in large part because of their contributions to Emacs.