* [NSA](http://www.nsa.gov/) and [NIST](http://www.nist.gov/) for creation of sponsoring creation of SHA2 and SHA3 algos
* [Keccak](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keccak) - Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters, and Gilles Van Assche
* [Skein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skein_(hash_function)) - Bruce Schneier, Stefan Lucks, Niels Ferguson, Doug Whiting, Mihir Bellare, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jon Callas and Jesse Walker.
* [Grøstl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%B8stl) - Praveen Gauravaram, Lars Knudsen, Krystian Matusiewicz, Florian Mendel, Christian Rechberger, Martin Schläffer, and Søren S. Thomsen
* [Fugue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_(hash_function)) - Shai Halevi, William E. Hall, and Charanjit S. Jutla
* [scrypt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrypt) - Colin Percival
* [bcrypt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt) - Niels Provos and David Mazières
* [X11](http://www.darkcoin.io/), [Hefty1](http://heavycoin.github.io/about.html), [Quark](http://www.qrk.cc/) creators (they just mixed together a bunch of the above algos)