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Rasmus is from Greenland and Guido is from the Netherlands, not China or Russia.

Rasmus Ledorf is Greenlandic and moved to Canada in 1980. I'm pretty sure he knew English before he wrote PHP.

Egor Homakov :)

Would Satoshi count? (I'm not even a programmer!)

The most plausible candidate I heard is actually called Mike.

You're one for three.

Japan. Greenland. Netherlands.

1/3

Maybe I should have added "Or Denmark. Or Netherlands.", but the idea is the same.

In Denmark and Netherlands, they use almost the same letters than in English. In Japan, China and Russia, they use other scripts, so the names are more difficult to Google unless you use some kind of transliteration or nickname.

For example, there was a very important Russian mathematician Чебышёв, every book transliterates his name in a different way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev

This is absolutely true, and undoubtedly a barrier to communication. It's also a complete non-starter as an argument in favor of a Portuguese SO site, so I really have no idea what it's doing in the article.

Not exactly a developer, but how about Xiaoyun Wang?

Eugene Roshal, the inventor of RAR.

Joe Armstrong