The first revision of Gallery 1.x was written by Bharat Mediratta. But it had a terrible user interface, so his friend Chris Smith had to get involved and clean up the user interface to make it useable. Later on, John Kirkland joined the team and added several key features like searching, nested albums and EXIF support.

Many other developers have contributed to the success of Gallery in ways large and small. We try to keep track of the contributors in the AUTHORS file that ships with the Gallery distribution. Here's the contents of the AUTHORS file as of this date:

$Id: credits.xml,v 1.5 2005/04/26 20:25:18 schultmc Exp $

Many people have dedicated their time to making Gallery what it is
today.  Here is a list of folks in alphabetical order who have
contributed to the project in the form of new code, patches, bug fixes,
or support.  Corrections, additions, deletions welcome.

Adrian Chung		<adrian AT enfusion-group DOT com>
Alan Harder		<alan DOT harder AT sun DOT com>
Anthony Moulen 		<ajmoulen AT moulen DOT org>
Ariel Shkedi		<asgallery AT dsgml DOT com>
Beckett Madden-Woods	<beckett AT beckettmw DOT com>
Benjamin Sadaba		<benjamin.sadaba AT turner DOT com>
Bharat Mediratta	<bharat AT menalto DOT com>
Chris Kelly             <ckdake AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
Chris Ricker		<kaboom AT gatech DOT edu>
Chris Smith		<chris AT jacko DOT com>
Christian Mohn		<h0bbel AT p0ggel DOT org>
Dariush Molavi		<dariush DOT molavi AT gtri DOT gatech DOT edu>
Dana Powers		<dana AT slothlovechunk DOT org>
Demian Johnston		<djohnston AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
Ed Wilts 		<ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
Eelco Brolman		<eelco AT brolman DOT nl>
Jacob Redding		<dexttor AT wiredgeek DOT com>
Jay Rossiter		<cryptographite AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
Jens Tkotz		<jens AT peino DOT de>
Jesse Mullan		<jmullan AT visi DOT com>
Joan McGalliard		<jefmcg AT users DOT sourceforge DOTnet>
John Kirkland		<jpk AT bl DOT org>
John W. Holmes		<john AT geekpal DOT com>
Joseph D. Scheve	<chevy AT tnatech DOT com>
Ken Frank		<kffrank AT mn DOT mediaone DOT net>
Markus Illenseer	<markus AT core DOT de>
Martin Smallridge 	<info AT snailsource DOT com>
Matthew McEachen	<mceachen AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
Rob Lingle		<rob AT rel3 DOT net>
Sammy Spets		<sammys AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au>
Steve Lacy		<gallery AT slacy DOT com>
Dr. Tilman Bubeck	<t DOT bubeck AT reinform DOT de>
Troy Edwards		<vallimar AT sexorcisto DOT net>
Vincent Furia		<vmf AT abtech DOT org>