Evan Clark Williams is an American internet entrepreneur.[He is a co-founder of Twitter, and was its CEO from 2008 to 2010, and a member of its board from 2007 to 2019.

John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist and chairman of Alphabet Inc.Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, serving as 10th president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne.Marc Andreessen called him "the godfather of Silicon Valley."

He was one of the key leaders of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti which successfully campaigned for the linguistic state of Maharashtra. He was the father of Bal Thackeray, who founded the Shiv Sena, a pro-Marathi leader. He is also the paternal grandfather of former Shiv Sena chief and Chief minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray. There is a school in Pune named after him.