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title: Acknowledgements
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<Intro>

React was originally created by [Jordan Walke.](https://github.com/jordwalke) Today, React has a [dedicated full-time team working on it](/community/team), as well as over a thousand [open source contributors.](https://github.com/facebook/react/graphs/contributors)

</Intro>

## Past contributors {/*past-contributors*/}

We'd like to recognize a few people who have made significant contributions to React and its documentation in the past and have helped maintain them over the years:

* [Almero Steyn](https://github.com/AlmeroSteyn)
* [Andreas Svensson](https://github.com/syranide)
* [Alex Krolick](https://github.com/alexkrolick)
* [Alexey Pyltsyn](https://github.com/lex111)
* [Andrey Lunyov](https://github.com/alunyov)
* [Brandon Dail](https://github.com/aweary)
* [Brian Vaughn](https://github.com/bvaughn)
* [Caleb Meredith](https://github.com/calebmer)
* [Chang Yan](https://github.com/cyan33)
* [Cheng Lou](https://github.com/chenglou)
* [Christoph Nakazawa](https://github.com/cpojer)
* [Christopher Chedeau](https://github.com/vjeux)
* [Clement Hoang](https://github.com/clemmy)
* [Dave McCabe](https://github.com/davidmccabe)
* [Dominic Gannaway](https://github.com/trueadm)
* [Flarnie Marchan](https://github.com/flarnie)
* [Jason Quense](https://github.com/jquense)
* [Jesse Beach](https://github.com/jessebeach)
* [Jessica Franco](https://github.com/Jessidhia)
* [Jim Sproch](https://github.com/jimfb)
* [Josh Duck](https://github.com/joshduck)
* [Joe Critchley](https://github.com/joecritch)
* [Jeff Morrison](https://github.com/jeffmo)
* [Luna Ruan](https://github.com/lunaruan)
* [Kathryn Middleton](https://github.com/kmiddleton14)
* [Keyan Zhang](https://github.com/keyz)
* [Marco Salazar](https://github.com/salazarm)
* [Mengdi Chen](https://github.com/mondaychen)
* [Nat Alison](https://github.com/tesseralis)
* [Nathan Hunzaker](https://github.com/nhunzaker)
* [Nicolas Gallagher](https://github.com/necolas)
* [Paul O'Shannessy](https://github.com/zpao)
* [Pete Hunt](https://github.com/petehunt)
* [Philipp Spiess](https://github.com/philipp-spiess)
* [Rachel Nabors](https://github.com/rachelnabors)
* [Robert Zhang](https://github.com/robertzhidealx)
* [Samuel Susla](https://github.com/sammy-SC)
* [Sander Spies](https://github.com/sanderspies)
* [Sasha Aickin](https://github.com/aickin)
* [Sean Keegan](https://github.com/seanryankeegan)
* [Sophia Shoemaker](https://github.com/mrscobbler)
* [Sunil Pai](https://github.com/threepointone)
* [Tim Yung](https://github.com/yungsters)
* [Xuan Huang](https://github.com/huxpro)

This list is not exhaustive.

We'd like to give special thanks to [Tom Occhino](https://github.com/tomocchino) and [Adam Wolff](https://github.com/wolffiex) for their guidance and support over the years. We are also thankful to all the volunteers who [translated React into other languages.](https://translations.react.dev/)

## Additional Thanks {/*additional-thanks*/}

Additionally, we're grateful to:

* [Jeff Barczewski](https://github.com/jeffbski) for allowing us to use the `react` package name on npm
* [Christopher Aue](https://christopheraue.net/) for letting us use the reactjs.com domain name and the [@reactjs](https://twitter.com/reactjs) username on Twitter
* [ProjectMoon](https://github.com/ProjectMoon) for letting us use the [flux](https://www.npmjs.com/package/flux) package name on npm
* Shane Anderson for allowing us to use the [react](https://github.com/react) org on GitHub
