I will just dump a big list of people who I admire (or have admired in the past) and have personally influenced me a lot. Not particular order, I may even randomize it in the future. I'll also add links in the future.

Hopefully the list never stops growing!

Jonas Kyratzes
Ursula K. Le Guin
Michael Brough
Peter Turchin
Douglas Hofstadter
Devine Lu Linvega
Richard Feynman
Loren Schmidt
Jaron Lanier
Titouan Millet
Greg Egan
Tolkien
Craig S. Kaplan
Peter Hammill
Eliezer Yudkowski
Stephen Wolfram
Grigori Perelman
Joshua Epstein
Edmund McMillen
Jonathan Blow
Jorge Luis Borges
Tsutomy Nihei
Andrew Glassner
Mattias Eklundh
David Foster Wallace
Ted Chiang
Alan Turing
Simon Kirby