Ari Lemmke

Ari Lemmke was born on December 12, 1963, he is the person who gave Linux its name.

Linus Torvalds had planned to name his kernel "Freax" (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate that it was a Unix-like system). Ari encouraged him to put it on the web, so it would be easier to get it. Ari, despite this, was not happy with the name "Freax" and gave Linus a directory called "linux" on his FTP server (ftp.funet.fi), with which the kernel ended up being called as that directory.