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 | Max Brister | 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 | Vivek Dogra | 
| 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 | 
| John Hunt | 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 | Colin Macdonald | Rob Mahurin | 
| Ricardo Marranita | Orestes Mas | Axel Mathéi | 
| Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka | Laurent Mazet | 
| G. D. McBain | Alexander Mamonov | Christoph Mayer | 
| Júlio Hoffimann Mendes | Thorsten Meyer | Petr Mikulik | 
| Mike Miller | Stefan Monnier | Antoine Moreau | 
| Kai P. Mueller | Hannes Müller | Victor Munoz | 
| Iain Murray | 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 | 
| Fabio Rossi | 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 | 
| Daniel Wagenaar | 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 | 
| Valentin Ortega-Clavero | Jacob Dawid | Júlio Hoffimann | 
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.