History UsefulNotes / NoteworthyDisneyStaff

* [[LetsPlay/PewDiePie Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg]]: The [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] known as LetsPlay/PewDiePie (who is THE most subscribed-to channel on Website/{{Youtube}}) was signed with Maker Studios, which is a Disney Consumer Products company, until February 2017, when he released nine videos that were perceived as anti-Semitic that led to both Disney and [=YouTube=] Red severing ties with him.

* UsefulNotes/DisneyActors

* Creator/LeeUnkrich: The director of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''. He was also a co-director on ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' (with Lasseter), ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' (with Stanton), and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' (with Docter).

* Creator/PeteDocter: One of the [=MVPs=] at Pixar, he's worked on their movies since the beginning and is the director behind hits ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}''. Since 2018, he is Pixar's current Chief Creative Officer.

* Creator/DaveSpafford: Worked at Disney in the 1970's as Don Bluth's assistant on WesternAnimation/TheRescuers, Film/PetesDragon1977, and WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound, he later returned to animate the Looney Tunes characters in Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit, and animated on the Under The Sea sequence from ''{{WesternAnimation/The Little Mermaid|1989}}''.

* Creator/KristinaReed: An alumni of [=DreamWorks=] Animation and associate producer on ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' who transferred to Disney and became the co-producer of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' and the producer of the short films ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Feast}}''.

* UsefulNotes/DisneyLegends

* Dave Spafford: Worked at Disney in the 1970’s as Don Bluth’s assistant on WesternAnimation/TheRescuers, Film/PetesDragon, and WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound, he later returned to animate the Looney Tunes characters in Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit, and animated on the Under The Sea sequence from ''WesternAnimation/The Little Mermaid|1989}}''.

* Creator/JeffreyKatzenberg: Became the studio head after Michael Eisner was named CEO. Had a hand in every animated film from ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' (which he inherited from Ron Miller) to ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' (which was released after he left; ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' started production during his tenure, but he hated the idea of that film and never took part in it). Was known for his massive ego, which didn't mix well with Eisner's own massive ego; following the accidental death of Frank Wells, he quit (or was fired from) Disney in 1994 and set up Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, which became Disney's chief animation rival in the 2000s.

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* '''Creator/AndreasDeja''':[[/index]] Started at Disney as a concept artist for ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', animated Mickey in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', and was the supervising animator for [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 King Triton]], [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]], WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}, [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Lilo]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Mama Odie]], and, most recently, [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011 Tigger]]. Currently, he deals with some independent short film animation and maintains his own [[http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/ blog]].

* Creator/DeanCundey: Cinematographer for ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' and ''The Parent Trap'' remake, and directed ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', which is his only directing job and the third and final ''Honey'' film; this one was sent DirectToVideo, was the first live-action DirectToVideo film from Disney, and was the last appearance of Rick Moranis in a live-action role to date.[[index]]
* Creator/DeanDeBlois: Chris Sanders's partner who co-directed ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' and followed Sanders to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, directing the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' films for that company (the first with Sanders, the second and third solo).[[/index]]

* '''Creator/DickNunis''': The boss of the Disney theme parks throughout the Dark Years, his success with the parks made him one of the few executives to survive the 1984 management shift.[[index]]

* Creator/DonBluth: Got his start as an assistant animator on ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', did animation for ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' and ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'', and was the directing animator for ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''. Directed ''WesternAnimation/TheSmallOne'' and was animation director on ''Film/PetesDragon1977'' before leaving.[[/index]]

* Creator/DonMink: One of the founders of Disney's It's A Laugh Productions.[[index]]
* Creator/DonRosa: Noted writer for the ''Donald Duck'' comics.[[/index]]

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* Creator/KathleenKennedy: Longtime associate of Steven Spielberg and Amblin, which she co-founded, she became part of Lucasfilm and was made the president of the studio and the brand manager and executive producer of ''Franchise/StarWars'' when Disney purchased Lucasfilm.[[/index]]

* Creator/MichaelEisner: Previously the president of Creator/{{Paramount}}, he became the first "outside" (aka non-Disney) CEO of the studio in 1984 and is partly responsible for turning its fortunes around in the late 1980s/early 1990s and making it into the multimedia empire it is today. He was ultimately forced out of his job in 2005 by disgruntled shareholders after he spent over half a decade [[ExecutiveMeddling attempting to take a more hands-on approach in the studio's creative process amongst other issues]].

* Creator/MNightShyamalan: Director who helmed ''Film/TheSixthSense'' for Disney. He also did Film/{{Unbreakable}}, Film/{{Signs}}, and Film/TheVillage with them, and much later Disney came back to co-produce [[Film/{{Glass2019}} Glass]] with Creator/{{Universal}} and [[Creator/BlumhouseProductions Blumhouse]].

* Creator/RichardPurdum: Pupil of Richard Williams who was supposed to direct ''Beauty and the Beast'', but his original version of the film didn't quite fly with studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, who said, "It didn't work at all", and forced a ResetButton on the production (he would do this '''again''' with ''Aladdin'', which led to the elimination of a character from that film). Purdum pulled out of the project, leading to Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise to direct and Katzenberg "buttonholing" Howard Ashman and Alan Menken and getting them to successfully turn the final film into a musical, which would wind up being the first animated Best Picture nominee and Ashman's GrandFinale. Purdum would return to Disney and provide some supplementary animation for ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' a few years later.

* '''''Music/HowardAshman''''': Songwriter who was suggested for the studio by Katzenberg's friend and future business partner David Geffin, who oversaw ''Little Shop Of Horror'', which Ashman co-wrote alongside Alan Menken (ironically, another Disney alumni, Peter Schneider, was also a part of that production). He teamed up with Menken for the first few films of the Disney Renaissance, but died before production on ''Beauty and the Beast'' and ''Aladdin'' could be completed.

* Music/RonJones: The music composer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales}}''.

* Music/MarkMueller: The composer of the theme songs to ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''.

* Creator/DavidWeimers: Co-producer of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' past its first season.

* Creator/KelseyMann: One of the story writers for Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' and the director and writer of the ''Monsters Inc.'' short ''Party Central''.

* Creaetor/LaurelLadevich: The producer of the ''Monsters Inc.'' short ''Party Central''.