Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 1968) is a Danish-Canadian
programmer. He created the
PHP scripting language, authoring the first two versions of the language and participated in the development of later versions led by a group of developers including Jim Winstead (who later created
blo.gs), Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo,
Andi Gutmans and
Zeev Suraski. He continues to contribute to the project.