Behold, mortal, the origins of Beautiful Soup...
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Leonard Richardson is the primary programmer.

Aaron DeVore is awesome.

Mark Pilgrim provided the encoding detection code that forms the base
of UnicodeDammit.

Thomas Kluyver and Ezio Melotti finished the work of getting Beautiful
Soup 4 working under Python 3.

Simon Willison wrote soupselect, which was used to make Beautiful Soup
support CSS selectors.

Sam Ruby helped with a lot of edge cases.

Jonathan Ellis was awarded the prestigous Beau Potage D'Or for his
work in solving the nestable tags conundrum.

An incomplete list of people have contributed patches to Beautiful
Soup:

 Istvan Albert, Andrew Lin, Anthony Baxter, Andrew Boyko, Tony Chang,
 Zephyr Fang, Fuzzy, Roman Gaufman, Yoni Gilad, Richie Hindle, Peteris
 Krumins, Kent Johnson, Ben Last, Robert Leftwich, Staffan Malmgren,
 Ksenia Marasanova, JP Moins, Adam Monsen, John Nagle, "Jon", Ed
 Oskiewicz, Greg Phillips, Giles Radford, Arthur Rudolph, Marko
 Samastur, Jouni Seppänen, Alexander Schmolck, Andy Theyers, Glyn
 Webster, Paul Wright, Danny Yoo

An incomplete list of people who made suggestions or found bugs or
found ways to break Beautiful Soup:

 Hanno Böck, Matteo Bertini, Chris Curvey, Simon Cusack, Bruce Eckel,
 Matt Ernst, Michael Foord, Tom Harris, Bill de hOra, Donald Howes,
 Matt Patterson, Scott Roberts, Steve Strassmann, Mike Williams,
 warchild at redho dot com, Sami Kuisma, Carlos Rocha, Bob Hutchison,
 Joren Mc, Michal Migurski, John Kleven, Tim Heaney, Tripp Lilley, Ed
 Summers, Dennis Sutch, Chris Smith, Aaron Sweep^W Swartz, Stuart
 Turner, Greg Edwards, Kevin J Kalupson, Nikos Kouremenos, Artur de
 Sousa Rocha, Yichun Wei, Per Vognsen