Brian Fox

Name: Brian Fox

Born: December 11, 1959, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Computer-related contributions

• African American computer programmer, author, entrepreneur, and free software supporter.
• Original author of the GNU Bash shell.
• Worked with Free Software Foundation, and created GNU Bash, GNU Info, GNU Makeinfo, GNU Finger, Readline and history libraries.

Significant publications

• Gnu Bash Reference Manual (2002).