South African creator of Ubuntu and the Shuttleworth Foundation. First South African in space.
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Eduardo Saverin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin
Facebook cofounder and billionaire. Fun facts:
– Saverin took advantage of Brazil’s lax insider trading regulations and made $300,000 via strategic investments in the oil industry.
– he renounced his U.S. citizenship; the citizenship change may have reduced the capital gains taxes Saverin would have paid after the Facebook IPO.[7][20] In response, Senator Chuck Schumer introduced the Ex-PATRIOT Act, which could have prevented Saverin from ever entering the U.S. again, but the bill died in committee.
Larry Wall
Interesting bio of the creator of Perl and patch utility:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
Explains the origin of the name Perl, which is a biblic reference to the parable of the Peral of great value.