* Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator and former executive producer and writer on the television show Gilmore Girls

Series creator David Crane wanted all six actors to be equally prominent, and the series was lauded as being " the first true ' ensemble ' show ".

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

* Magnús Scheving, creator and co-star of the children's television show LazyTown

The creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".

Allen Funt, the creator and host of the American version of the television show Candid Camera, was a collector of Alma-Tadema paintings at a time when the artist's reputation in the 20th century was at its nadir ; in a relatively few years he bought 35 works, about 10 % of Alma-Tadema's output.

Some sources indicate that McGoohan was the sole or primary creator of the show.

** Danny Antonucci, Canadian creator of the Cartoon Network show, Ed Edd n Eddy

CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.

) He also talked for almost a minute about a supposed Austrian psychiatrist called Heinrich Swartzberg, guessing that show creator Ian Messiter had just made the name up.

One year later, the same concept was used by MTV in their new series The Real World and Nummer 28 creator Erik Latour has long claimed that The Real World was directly inspired by his show.

" Jesse apparently had no children of his own, and happily provided for his nephews and niece in the unexplained absence of all of their parents ( Gy Waldron, the creator of the show, states on the DVDs that their parents were killed in a car wreck, but it was never mentioned in the show ).

Series creator Matt Groening is a fan of the band and they appeared on the show at his personal request.

The show's creator Humphrey Barclay would also go on to create the TV show Do Not Adjust Your Set, featuring the rest of the Python team.

The show was a favorite of The X-Files creator Chris Carter, who worked it into Special Agent Fox Mulder's " origin " story: a teenaged Mulder was waiting to watch The Magician when his sister Samantha was abducted by mysterious forces.

As part of the anti-war message he wanted the show to convey, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry intended to depict the Federation as if it was like an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations.

According to cartoon creator / voice actor, Seth MacFarlane, the voice of Roger the Alien on the Fox television show American Dad!

According to show creator Matt Groening, Phil Hartman was cast in the role due to his ability to pull " the maximum amount of humor " out of any line he was given.

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the Star Trek series, pitched his show as " Wagon Train to the stars " early on, but admitted later that this was more about getting it produced in a time that loved Western-themed TV series than about its actual content.

David Chase, the creator of the show, has said that he could not produce the series while his own mother was alive.

Although a third season was considered, series creator J. Michael Straczynski made it clear that if the show ran a further season he would have nothing to do with it.

Chindōgu and its creator Kenji Kawakami also became a regular feature on a children's television show produced by the BBC called It'll Never Work, a show in a similar vein as the BBC's Tomorrow's World ; however, It'll Never Work usually focused more on wacky and humorous gadgets than on serious scientific and technological advances.

Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who went blind following a childhood accident.

In a fearless move, Pogo's creator Walt Kelly took on Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, caricaturing him as a bobcat named Simple J. Malarkey, a megalomaniac who was bent on taking over the characters ' birdwatching club and rooting out all undesirables.

In the late 1990s, an amateur cartoonist named Karl Hörnell began submitting a comic strip parodying both Dilbert and the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon to Dragon creator Erik Larsen.

The thirteen heavens were ruled by Ometeotl, the dual Lord, creator of the Dual-Genesis who, as male, takes the name Ometecuhtli ( Two Lord ), and as female is named Omecihuatl ( Two Lady ).

Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of the Extreme Programming < noinclude ></ noinclude > and Test Driven Development software development methodologies, also named agile software development.

One of Benedict's primary reforms was to ensure that all religious houses in Louis ' realm adhered to the Rule of Saint Benedict, named for its creator, Benedict of Nursia ( 480 – 550 ), the First Benedict.

The New Yorkers signature display typeface, used for its nameplate and headlines and the masthead above The Talk of the Town section, is Irvin, named after its creator, the designer-illustrator Rea Irvin.

In August 1891, British physician Sir Morell Mackenzie wrote an article in the 19th century influential magazines Fortnightly Review to establish England as the originating country for the Tom Collins cocktail and a person named John Collins as its creator.

** 101. mendelevium, Md, named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, credited for being the primary creator of the periodic table of the chemical elements ( 1955 ).

The scale is named after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville.

Locations featured in the 1990s television cartoon, " Doug ", are named after or inspired by areas in Richmond and nearby counties as creator Jim Jinkins was born and raised in Richmond.

The dual problem of " integrity ," i. e., the problem of accuracy ( even provenance ) of objects and attendant trustworthiness of subjects not inappropriately to modify or destroy it, is addressed by mathematically affine models, the most important of which is named for its creator, K. J. Biba.

* Gulden's, mustard brand named after its creator Charles Gulden

* Porter Hall-home of the math and science curriculum is named for alumnus, William A. Porter, the creator of E-Trade and a major benefactor of the school.

However, the city is merely named after the shows ' creator, Dan Povenmire, and it is not easy to guess what state it is in, as the geography is very diverse.

However evidence found in 1987 suggested the real creator was a wooden boat designer from Boston named William Starling Burgess.

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening named Nelson after the wrestling hold of the same name.

It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor.

Matt Groening, the creator of the franchise, expressed a wish to make a parody film named Simpstasia ; it was never produced, partly because it would have been too difficult to write a feature-length script.

" Shooter also institutionalized creator royalties, starting the Epic imprint for creator-owned material in 1982 ; introduced company-wide crossover story arcs, with Contest of Champions and Secret Wars ; and launched a new, albeit ultimately unsuccessful, line named New Universe, to commemorate Marvel's 25th anniversary, in 1986.

In the first arc of the Curse of the Spawn series, the Spawn's creator Plegethonyarre was named after the mythological river.

The character was named by series creator Bernard Fein after his friend, the American soap opera and character actor Robert J. Hogan, who appeared in two episodes of Hogan's Heroes.

* Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, named after its creator, August Dvorak

Lorenzo Ghiberti () ( 1378 – 1 December 1455 ), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral, named by Michelangelo the " Gates of Paradise ".

The hybrid boysenberry, named after its creator, Rudolph Boysen, was a cross between a blackberry, red raspberry and loganberry.