This is a curated list I made from people I follow and I've been learning a lot from. They are recognized by the community for their contributions/talks/projects/books and so on.
(Struggling to divide this into categories, and getting people's "small description". Alphabetical order)
Note: I'm not trying to say people only know from the category they're in. Just trying to make it easier for people to follow the subjects they want to.
Feel free to contribute, please update and improve people's description!
- Addy Osmani - Tooling, Chrome, Yeoman
- Jake Archibald - Service Workers, Performance, Offline
- Nolan Lawson - Performance, Offline, Pokedex.org
- Paul Irish - Performance, Chrome
- Alex Sexton - Stripe, Modernizr, jQuery, Dojo
- André Staltz - Reactive Programming, Cycle.js, RxJS
- Brendan Eich - Creator of Javascript, Brave browser
- Dan Abramov - React, creator of Redux and ReduxHotLoader
- David Walsh - Mozilla, MooTools
- Eric Elliot - Prototypal Inheritance, Programming Javascript Applications, Tape
- Elijah Manor - React for the future
- Henrik Joreteg - HumanJS, &
- Jafar Husain - Netflix, FalcorJS, Async Javascript
- Jan Lehnardt - CouchDB, HoodieHQ, JSConfEU
- Jeremy Ashkenas - BackboneJS, CoffeeScript, Underscore
- John Lindquist - EggHead.io
- Kyle Simpson - YDKJS, Asynquence
- Mattias P Johansson - FunFunFunction, Functional Programming in Javascript
- Wes Bos - Sublime Text Book, LearnRedux.com, React for beginners
- Lea Verou - CSS Secrets
- Sara Soueidan - SVG, CSS, Performance, Accessibility
- Eric Vicenti - React Native Team @ Facebook
- Dag Kittlaus - Co-Founder/CEO Siri & Viv Labs
- Bill Gates - Microsoft, Philanthropist
- Elon Musk - Tesla, Paypal, SpaceX
- Mikko Hypponen - F-Secure, Security Expert
- Solomon Hykes - Founder of dotcloud and creator of the Docker project.
- Werner Vogels - Amazon CTO
- Michio Kaku - Physicist, Futurist
- Neil deGrasse Tyson - Astrophysicist
- Linus Torvalds - Linux & git creator
- David Heinemeier Hansson - Ruby on Rails creator