This is a list of people i stumbled over while i got familiar with both frontend- and backend javascript. This list is at an really early state - so please help to extend it :)
- Isaac Z. Schlueter
- Ben Noordhuis
- Eran Hammer
- Trevor Norris
- Timothy J Fontaine
- Simon Boudrias
- Felix Geisendörfer
- Mikeal Rogers
- Max Ogden
- Dominic Tarr
- Dav Glass
- James Halliday
- Rob Richardson
- Sindre Sorhus
- Pascal Hartig
- Ben Alman
- Guillermo Rauch
- Domenic Denicola
- Mirco Zeiss
- Laurie Voss
- Misko Hevery (the father of AngularJs)
- Brad Green
- Robin Böhm
- Brian Ford
- Todd Motto
- Pascal Precht
- John Papa
- Brendan Eich
- Kris Kowal
- Burke Holland
- Paul Kinlan
- Alex R. Young
- Eric Bidelman
- Ilya Grigorik
- Addy Osmani
- Paul Irish
- Eric Elliott
- Dan Abramov
- Nicholas C. Zakas
- Douglas Crockford
- Ricardo Cabello
- Miller Medeiros
- Elijah Manor
- Vinicius Dacal
- Chris Coyier
- Lea Verou
- Sara Soueidan
- Maurício Sammi Silva (Maujor)
- Raphael Fabeni
- Christian Heilmann
- Anselm Hannemann
- Christian Schaefer
- Andre Jay Meissner
- David Walsh
- Zeno Rocha
- Holly Schinsky
- Brian Rinaldi
- Brian LeRoux
- Raymond Camden
- Yoav Weiss
- Jason San Jose
- Narciso Jaramillo
- Randy Edmunds
- Peter Flynn
- Ingo Richter
- Kevin Dangoor
- Jeff Booher