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Roberto Ierusalimschy

Waldemar Celes

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo

The folks behind Lua (programming language)

The Lua developers are Brazilians, hence also not from Japan, China, or Russia (as the original article asks for).

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.

If you want only one programmer from the non-English speaking world, the canonical answer is: “Linus Torvalds”.

My interpretation is that they wanted a programmer from a non-latin script language.

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