The Hurd has very few people working on it. This is a list of people who are large contributors to the project.
- Samuel Thibault - Maintainer
- Joshua Branson - Documentation
- Etienne Brateau - xkb keyboard layout
- Sergey Bugaev - security fixes, 64 bit and AArch64 port, and Alpine/Hurd
- Diego Nieto Cid - fixed compilation warnings
- Flávio Cruz - Mach IPC improvements
- Luca Dariz - 64 bit port and make check
- Guy Fleury - moved pthread to glibc
- Almudena Garcia - SMP work and hardware tester
- Michael Kelly - memory fixes via stress-ng
- Joan Lledó - PCI arbiter and lwip port
- Janneke Nieuwenhuizen - Guix/Hurd
- Milos Nikic - libdiskfs and ext2fs contributions
- Svante Signell - file record locking, ada/gnat/go port, owner of mahler buildd
- Vedant Tewari - initial rust port
- Damien Zammit - ACPI arbiter, SMP, rumpkernel, and openjdk
Here is a list of people who were large contributors:
- Miles Bader - Original developer
- Richard Braun - MM hacker, owner of darnassus, ironforge buildd, exodar
- Marcus Brinkman - Co-author of the Critique
- Thomas Bushnell - Original maintainer
- Zheng Da - netdde
- Jeremie Koenig - Debian installer
- Roland McGrath - Original maintainer
- Manolis Ragkousis - Hurd support for Guix
- Marin Ramesa - Cleanups
- Guillem Jover - 64 bit port
- Thomas Schwinge - Previous Maintainer
- Pino Toscano - Portability fixes
- Neal H. Walfield - Co-author of the Critique, libpthread
- Justus Winter - Developer