Thanks Jeremy Very helpful, especially the Postel list, and the Wikipedia link - had no idea that was there! Much appreciated Sue -----Original Message----- From: jeremy hunsinger [mailto:jhuns@vt.edu] Sent: 05 March 2011 12:38 To: Sue Thomas Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America The list of Postel award winners: http://www.isoc.org/awards/postel/awards.shtml and of course: Dr. Jun-ichiro "Itojun" Hagino Linus Torvalds Julian Assange Tim Berners-Lee Robert Calliau (most people here: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/People.html) Faruouk Kamoun Alan Amtage i could probably go on with research. there is also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_personalities_by_country which is a different kind of internet fame