The score of people here saying "Matz" somewhat underscores the issue.
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.
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.
EDIT:
Yup I was way off. It's Yukihiro Matsumoto haha