Many people have contributed to Octave's development. The following people have helped code parts of Octave or aided in various other ways (listed alphabetically).
| Ben Abbott | Andy Adler | Giles Anderson | 
| Joel Andersson | Muthiah Annamalai | Marco Atzeri | 
| Shai Ayal | Roger Banks | Ben Barrowes | 
| Alexander Barth | David Bateman | Heinz Bauschke | 
| Roman Belov | Karl Berry | David Billinghurst | 
| Don Bindner | Jakub Bogusz | Moritz Borgmann | 
| Paul Boven | Richard Bovey | John Bradshaw | 
| Marcus Brinkmann | Remy Bruno | Ansgar Burchard | 
| Marco Caliari | Daniel Calvelo | John C. Campbell | 
| Juan Pablo Carbajal | Jean-Francois Cardoso | Joao Cardoso | 
| Larrie Carr | David Castelow | Vincent Cautaerts | 
| Clinton Chee | Albert Chin-A-Young | Carsten Clark | 
| J. D. Cole | Martin Costabel | Michael Creel | 
| Jeff Cunningham | Martin Dalecki | Jorge Barros de Abreu | 
| Carlo de Falco | Jacob Dawid | Thomas D. Dean | 
| Philippe Defert | Bill Denney | Fabian Deutsch | 
| Christos Dimitrakakis | David M. Doolin | Carnë Draug | 
| Pascal A. Dupuis | John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel | 
| Pieter Eendebak | Paul Eggert | Stephen Eglen | 
| Peter Ekberg | Rolf Fabian | Gunnar Farnebäck | 
| Stephen Fegan | Ramon Garcia Fernandez | Torsten Finke | 
| Jose Daniel Munoz Frias | Brad Froehle | Castor Fu | 
| Eduardo Gallestey | Walter Gautschi | Klaus Gebhardt | 
| Driss Ghaddab | Nicolo Giorgetti | Michael D. Godfrey | 
| Michael Goffioul | Glenn Golden | Tomislav Goles | 
| Keith Goodman | Brian Gough | Steffen Groot | 
| Etienne Grossmann | David Grundberg | Peter Gustafson | 
| Kai Habel | Patrick Häcker | William P. Y. Hadisoeseno | 
| Jaroslav Hajek | Benjamin Hall | Kim Hansen | 
| Søren Hauberg | Dave Hawthorne | Daniel Heiserer | 
| Martin Helm | Stefan Hepp | Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso | 
| Yozo Hida | Ryan Hinton | Roman Hodek | 
| A. Scottedward Hodel | Richard Allan Holcombe | Tom Holroyd | 
| David Hoover | Kurt Hornik | Christopher Hulbert | 
| Cyril Humbert | Teemu Ikonen | Alan W. Irwin | 
| Geoff Jacobsen | Mats Jansson | Cai Jianming | 
| Steven G. Johnson | Heikki Junes | Matthias Jüschke | 
| Atsushi Kajita | Jarkko Kaleva | Mohamed Kamoun | 
| Lute Kamstra | Fotios Kasolis | Thomas Kasper | 
| Joel Keay | Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle | 
| Aaron A. King | Arno J. Klaassen | Alexander Klein | 
| Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit | Ken Kouno | 
| Kacper Kowalik | Daniel Kraft | Aravindh Krishnamoorthy | 
| Oyvind Kristiansen | Piotr Krzyzanowski | Volker Kuhlmann | 
| Tetsuro Kurita | Miroslaw Kwasniak | Rafael Laboissiere | 
| Kai Labusch | Claude Lacoursiere | Walter Landry | 
| Bill Lash | Dirk Laurie | Maurice LeBrun | 
| Friedrich Leisch | Jyh-miin Lin | Timo Lindfors | 
| Benjamin Lindner | Ross Lippert | David Livings | 
| Sebastien Loisel | Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin | 
| Emil Lucretiu | Hoxide Ma | James Macnicol | 
| Jens-Uwe Mager | Rob Mahurin | Ricardo Marranita | 
| Orestes Mas | Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka | 
| Laurent Mazet | G. D. McBain | Alexander Mamonov | 
| Christoph Mayer | Júlio Hoffimann Mendes | Thorsten Meyer | 
| Petr Mikulik | Stefan Monnier | Antoine Moreau | 
| Kai P. Mueller | Hannes Müller | Victor Munoz | 
| Carmen Navarrete | Todd Neal | Philip Nienhuis | 
| Al Niessner | Rick Niles | Takuji Nishimura | 
| Kai Noda | Eric Norum | Krzesimir Nowak | 
| Michael O'Brien | Peter O'Gorman | Thorsten Ohl | 
| Arno Onken | Luis F. Ortiz | Scott Pakin | 
| Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier | Per Persson | 
| Primozz Peterlin | Jim Peterson | Danilo Piazzalunga | 
| Nicholas Piper | Elias Pipping | Robert Platt | 
| Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Tom Poage | Orion Poplawski | 
| Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer | Francesco Potortì | 
| Konstantinos Poulios | Jarno Rajahalme | James B. Rawlings | 
| Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey | Joshua Redstone | 
| Lukas Reichlin | Michael Reifenberger | Anthony Richardson | 
| Jason Riedy | E. Joshua Rigler | Petter Risholm | 
| Matthew W. Roberts | Andrew Ross | Mark van Rossum | 
| Joe Rothweiler | Kevin Ruland | Kristian Rumberg | 
| Ryan Rusaw | Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela | 
| Juhani Saastamoinen | Radek Salac | Ben Sapp | 
| Aleksej Saushev | Alois Schlögl | Michel D. Schmid | 
| Julian Schnidder | Nicol N. Schraudolph | Sebastian Schubert | 
| Ludwig Schwardt | Thomas L. Scofield | Daniel J. Sebald | 
| Dmitri A. Sergatskov | Vanya Sergeev | Baylis Shanks | 
| Andriy Shinkarchuck | Robert T. Short | Joseph P. Skudlarek | 
| John Smith | Julius Smith | Shan G. Smith | 
| Peter L. Sondergaard | Joerg Specht | Quentin H. Spencer | 
| Christoph Spiel | Richard Stallman | Russell Standish | 
| Brett Stewart | Doug Stewart | Jonathan Stickel | 
| Judd Storrs | Thomas Stuart | Ivan Sutoris | 
| John Swensen | Daisuke Takago | Ariel Tankus | 
| Matthew Tenny | Georg Thimm | Duncan Temple Lang | 
| Kris Thielemans | Olaf Till | Christophe Tournery | 
| Thomas Treichl | Karsten Trulsen | Frederick Umminger | 
| Utkarsh Upadhyay | Stefan van der Walt | Peter Van Wieren | 
| James R. Van Zandt | Gregory Vanuxem | Ivana Varekova | 
| Thomas Walter | Andreas Weber | Olaf Weber | 
| Thomas Weber | Rik Wehbring | Bob Weigel | 
| Andreas Weingessel | Martin Weiser | Michael Weitzel | 
| David Wells | Fook Fah Yap | Sean Young | 
| Michael Zeising | Federico Zenith | Alex Zvoleff | 
Special thanks to the following people and organizations for supporting the development of Octave:
This project would not have been possible without the GNU software used in and to produce Octave.