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 | Joel Andersson | 
| Muthiah Annamalai | Shai Ayal | Roger Banks | 
| Ben Barrowes | Alexander Barth | David Bateman | 
| Heinz Bauschke | Karl Berry | David Billinghurst | 
| Don Bindner | Jakub Bogusz | Moritz Borgmann | 
| Richard Bovey | Marcus Brinkmann | Remy Bruno | 
| Marco Caliari | Daniel Calvelo | John C. Campbell | 
| 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 | 
| Thomas D. Dean | Philippe Defert | Bill Denney | 
| Christos Dimitrakakis | David M. Doolin | Pascal A. Dupuis | 
| John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel | 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 | 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 | Atsushi Kajita | 
| Jarkko Kaleva | Mohamed Kamoun | Lute Kamstra | 
| Fotios Kasolis | Thomas Kasper | Joel Keay | 
| Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle | Aaron A. King | 
| Arno J. Klaassen | Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit | 
| Ken Kouno | Kacper Kowalik | 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 | 
| Timo Lindfors | Benjamin Lindner | Ross Lippert | 
| David Livings | Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin | 
| Emil Lucretiu | Hoxide Ma | James Macnicol | 
| Jens-Uwe Mager | Ricardo Marranita | Orestes Mas | 
| Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka | Laurent Mazet | 
| G. D. McBain | Alexander Mamonov | Christoph Mayer | 
| Thorsten Meyer | Petr Mikulik | Stefan Monnier | 
| Antoine Moreau | Kai P. Mueller | Victor Munoz | 
| Carmen Navarrete | Todd Neal | 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 | 
| Robert Platt | Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Tom Poage | 
| Orion Poplawski | Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer | 
| Francesco Potorti | Konstantinos Poulios | James B. Rawlings | 
| Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey | Michael Reifenberger | 
| Jason Riedy | Petter Risholm | Matthew W. Roberts | 
| Andrew Ross | Mark van Rossum | Kevin Ruland | 
| Kristian Rumberg | Ryan Rusaw | Olli Saarela | 
| Toni Saarela | Juhani Saastamoinen | Radek Salac | 
| Ben Sapp | Aleksej Saushev | Alois Schloegl | 
| Michel D. Schmid | Julian Schnidder | Nicol N. Schraudolph | 
| Sebastian Schubert | Ludwig Schwardt | Thomas L. Scofield | 
| Daniel J. Sebald | Dmitri A. Sergatskov | Baylis Shanks | 
| Joseph P. Skudlarek | John Smith | Julius Smith | 
| Shan G. Smith | Joerg Specht | Quentin H. Spencer | 
| Christoph Spiel | Richard Stallman | Russell Standish | 
| Doug Stewart | Jonathan Stickel | Judd Storrs | 
| Thomas Stuart | Ivan Sutoris | John Swensen | 
| Daisuke Takago | Ariel Tankus | Georg Thimm | 
| Duncan Temple Lang | Kris Thielemans | Olaf Till | 
| Christophe Tournery | Thomas Treichl | Frederick Umminger | 
| Utkarsh Upadhyay | Stefan van der Walt | Peter Van Wieren | 
| James R. Van Zandt | Gregory Vanuxem | Ivana Varekova | 
| Thomas Walter | Olaf Weber | Thomas Weber | 
| Rik Wehbring | Bob Weigel | Andreas Weingessel | 
| Michael Weitzel | Fook Fah Yap | 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.