And how many people know that DHH is David Heinemeier Hansson? I don't think the use of a nickname or abbreviation is relevant.

The thing about coming up with a Japanese name is that the names are going to be unfamiliar.

Kind of like how I wouldn't be able to memorize 10 Swedish names as easily as I could British names.

I'll remember a name like John Carmack much more easily than a name like Jonatan Söderström or Keiji Inafune.

Matsumoto Yashamoto from memory. I'm probably off a few letters.

EDIT:

Yup I was way off. It's Yukihiro Matsumoto haha

Yukihiro Matsumoto. Do I win anything?

In any case, I'm not really sure what the aim of the challenge was. Most anybody could probably name at least one non-native-English-speaking developer— Bjarne Stroustrup and Guido van Rossum both come to mind, maybe because I've got language developers on the brain. The only reason I can think of to restrict it to Japanese/Chinese/Russian developers is to use only nations with non-Latin character sets— which is a weird reason, and isn't a very compelling argument in favor of Portuguese localization.

I don't believe the OP actually meant, strictly speaking, Japan, China and Russia full stop. It was more like: name any famous developer from the non-English speaking world...

And yes, the three names I listed are all Brazilians.