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Many people have already contributed to Octave's development. The following people have helped write parts of Octave or helped out in various other ways (listed alphabetically).
| Ben Abbott | Andy Adler | Joel Andersson | 
| Muthiah Annamalai | Shai Ayal | Roger Banks | 
| Ben Barrowes | Alexander Barth | David Bateman | 
| Heinz Bauschke | Karl Berry | David Billinghurst | 
| Don Bindner | Jakub Bogusz | Moritz Borgmann | 
| Richard Bovey | Marcus Brinkmann | Remy Bruno | 
| Marco Caliari | Daniel Calvelo | John C. Campbell | 
| Jean-Francois Cardoso | Joao Cardoso | Larrie Carr | 
| David Castelow | Vincent Cautaerts | Clinton Chee | 
| Albert Chin-A-Young | J. D. Cole | Martin Costabel | 
| Michael Creel | Jeff Cunningham | Martin Dalecki | 
| Jorge Barros de Abreu | Philippe Defert | Bill Denney | 
| David M. Doolin | Pascal A. Dupuis | John W. Eaton | 
| Dirk Eddelbuettel | Paul Eggert | Stephen Eglen | 
| Peter Ekberg | Rolf Fabian | Stephen Fegan | 
| Ramon Garcia Fernandez | Torsten Finke | Jose Daniel Munoz Frias | 
| Castor Fu | Eduardo Gallestey | Walter Gautschi | 
| Klaus Gebhardt | Driss Ghaddab | Nicolo Giorgetti | 
| Michael Goffioul | Glenn Golden | Tomislav Goles | 
| Keith Goodman | Etienne Grossmann | Peter Gustafson | 
| Kai Habel | William P. Y. Hadisoeseno | Benjamin Hall | 
| Kim Hansen | Soren Hauberg | Daniel Heiserer | 
| Yozo Hida | Ryan Hinton | Roman Hodek | 
| A. Scottedward Hodel | Richard Allan Holcombe | Tom Holroyd | 
| David Hoover | Kurt Hornik | Christopher Hulbert | 
| Cyril Humbert | Teemu Ikonen | Alan W. Irwin | 
| Geoff Jacobsen | Mats Jansson | Cai Jianming | 
| Steven G. Johnson | Heikki Junes | Atsushi Kajita | 
| Mohamed Kamoun | Lute Kamstra | Thomas Kasper | 
| Joel Keay | Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle | 
| Aaron A. King | Arno J. Klaassen | Geoffrey Knauth | 
| Heine Kolltveit | Ken Kouno | Oyvind Kristiansen | 
| Piotr Krzyzanowski | Volker Kuhlmann | Tetsuro Kurita | 
| Miroslaw Kwasniak | Rafael Laboissiere | Kai Labusch | 
| Claude Lacoursiere | Walter Landry | Bill Lash | 
| Dirk Laurie | Maurice LeBrun | Friedrich Leisch | 
| Timo Lindfors | Benjamin Lindner | Ross Lippert | 
| David Livings | Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin | 
| Emil Lucretiu | Hoxide Ma | James Macnicol | 
| Jens-Uwe Mager | Ricardo Marranita | Orestes Mas | 
| Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka | Laurent Mazet | 
| G. D. McBain | Christoph Mayer | Stefan Monnier | 
| Antoine Moreau | Kai P. Mueller | Victor Munoz | 
| Carmen Navarrete | Todd Neal | Al Niessner | 
| Rick Niles | Takuji Nishimura | Eric Norum | 
| Michael O'Brien | Thorsten Ohl | Arno Onken | 
| Luis F. Ortiz | Scott Pakin | Gabriele Pannocchia | 
| Sylvain Pelissier | Per Persson | Primozz Peterlin | 
| Jim Peterson | Danilo Piazzalunga | Nicholas Piper | 
| Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Tom Poage | Orion Poplawski | 
| Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer | Francesco Potorti | 
| James B. Rawlings | Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey | 
| Michael Reifenberger | Jason Riedy | Petter Risholm | 
| Matthew W. Roberts | Andrew Ross | Mark van Rossum | 
| Kevin Ruland | Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela | 
| Juhani Saastamoinen | Ben Sapp | Alois Schloegl | 
| Michel D. Schmid | Nicol N. Schraudolph | Sebastian Schubert | 
| Ludwig Schwardt | Daniel J. Sebald | Dmitri A. Sergatskov | 
| Baylis Shanks | Joseph P. Skudlarek | John Smith | 
| Julius Smith | Shan G. Smith | Joerg Specht | 
| Quentin H. Spencer | Christoph Spiel | Richard Stallman | 
| Russell Standish | Doug Stewart | Thomas Stuart | 
| John Swensen | Ariel Tankus | Georg Thimm | 
| Duncan Temple Lang | Kris Thielemans | Olaf Till | 
| Thomas Treichl | Utkarsh Upadhyay | Stefan van der Walt | 
| Peter Van Wieren | James R. Van Zandt | Gregory Vanuxem | 
| Ivana Varekova | Thomas Walter | Olaf Weber | 
| Thomas Weber | Bob Weigel | Andreas Weingessel | 
| Michael Weitzel | Fook Fah Yap | Michael Zeising | 
| Federico Zenith | Alex Zvoleff | 
Special thanks to the following people and organizations for supporting the development of Octave:
This project would not have been possible without the GNU software used in and used to produce Octave.