What connects this exhaustive chronological list?

1. Larry Wall
2. Miguel de Icaza
3. Brian Paul
4. Guido van Rossum
5. Lawrence Lessig
6. Alan Cox
7. Theo de Raadt
8. Andrew Tridgell
9. Ted Ts’o
10. Harald Welte

Cracked left, right and center.

Ananth, Goyal, karthik, nisha’s thambi, mach101, Prasad, AmK, Martin, p vs np, Kal, duriel, Rohan, Ps, Raghuvansh, yaksha, Atul Mathew, Jean Valjean, akhi, Debasish, priyananda, BASAB, udupendra, madhur, Dibyo, Aparna, username, varun, Neeraj, shenoyvarun86 and blindo

Who is this guy?

Hint: His followers invariably hate the guy below and get into bitter flame wars on the internet saying the guy above is better(recent research has evidance to prove otherwise)

Update: Fixed image. Thanks to duriel.

Cracked by almost everyone.

Dibyo, Rohan, Martin, p vs np, Gurupad, Ps, calvin, Debasish, shenoyvarun86, Goyal, akhi, Kal, duriel, username, Raghuvansh, Jean Valjean, Mo, Prasad, AmK, shrik, priyananda, Miraj C. Vora, malcaluffin, Aparna, nisha’s thambi, Siddharth Jain, Ananth, Atul Mathew, karthik, nishansolo and kiran

Identify famous couple of the world of sci-fi:

Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , malcaluffin , Bipin Banavalikar and udupendra.

shenoyvarun86, malcaluffin, Bipin Banavalikar and udupendra

Every budding computer scientist would have heard about this, but never would have seen this.

Identify

Cracked by: Goyal , Raghuvansh , Dibyo , p vs np , Kal , duriel , dheeraj , twistedtail , username , bulldozer , Jean Valjean , K.S.Manish , udupendra , sumo_ftb , Johny Walker , Neeraj , shrik , darksideofchand , Ananth , Pawankumar Hegde , Vaishnavi , priyananda , Soda.

Goyal, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, p vs np, Kal, duriel, dheeraj, twistedtail, username, bulldozer, Jean Valjean, K.S.Manish, udupendra, sumo_ftb, Johny Walker, Neeraj, shrik, darksideofchand, Ananth, Pawankumar Hegde, Vaishnavi, priyananda and Soda

Identify the person in the middle and what’s being done with him:

Clue:

Neeraj , Dibyo , Rohan , Ludwig , Debasish , Raghuvansh , Kal and Mo.

Neeraj, Dibyo, Rohan, Ludwig, Debasish, Raghuvansh, Kal and Mo

Connect

Cracked by: Goyal , twistdtail , duriel , quaziluffy , Rahul and Debasish.

Goyal, twistdtail, duriel, quaziluffy, Rahul and Debasish

Identify

Cracked by username , Goyal , Kal , udupendra and shrik.

username, Goyal, Kal, udupendra and shrik

Programming language 1 is named after 2. Identify them both.

1. 2.

Hint:

To identify 1, use the symbols in the image. To identify 2, use the image below

Cracked by: Goyal , username , udupendra , Raghuvansh , akhi , Johny Walker , vs , Kal , shenoyvarun86 , kaushik , shrik , malcaluffin , Atul Mathew and Dibyo.

Goyal, username, udupendra, Raghuvansh, akhi, Johny Walker, vs, Kal, shenoyvarun86, kaushik, shrik, malcaluffin, Atul Mathew and Dibyo

(Edit: Question dates fudged to push it back in time)

Here’s a second question for the day to make up for the repeat one earlier this week, folks.

Identify this chap and why he shot to “fame” on the interwebs:

Cracked by Atul Mathew , Kal , Goyal , Rohan , Raghuvansh , username , udupendra , Jean Valjean , Mo and karthik.

Atul Mathew, Kal, Goyal, Rohan, Raghuvansh, username, udupendra, Jean Valjean, Mo and karthik

What’s the story involving the guy in (1), a place in (2)’s legend, and a very irritating file format?

Cracked by almost everyone.

Raghuvansh, Kal, Dibyo, Rohan, Ananth and Ananta