History UsefulNotes / NoteworthyDisneyStaff

* Creator/BobChapek: Succeeded Tom Staggs as the boss of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts when Staggs became president and Chief Operating Officer. Currently the CEO of Disney after being instated as such in 2020.

* Creator/JohnCarnochan: Editor on several Disney Animated Classics in the early 90's, and followed Katzenberg to [=DreamWorks=] afterwards.

* '''Creator/BobBroughton''': Camera effects artist to nearly every Disney motion picture from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' in 1937 to ''The Black Hole'' in 1979
* Creator/BobChapek: Succeeded Tom Staggs as the boss of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts when Staggs became president and Chief Operating Officer.

* '''Creator/BobIger''': Originally the boss of ABC, he was promoted to the President and Chief Operating Officer position after Wells's death, Katzenberg's failure to claim the position, and Michael Ovitz's failure to hold onto it left the COO position open for Iger; he subsequently succeeded Eisner on short notice and immediately began negotiations to buy Pixar and bring Steve Jobs and John Lasseter into the full Disney fold. He succeeded, and under Iger's watch, Disney also bought Marvel and then Lucasfilm, and expanded their theme park business. Iger will retire in 2021.

* Chris Sauve: Canadian animator who originally worked at Creator/CarbunkleCartoons, he animated Governor John Ratcliffe In WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}, Quasimodo in WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, Vinnie and Moliere In WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire, Tanana In WesternAnimation/BrotherBear, Alameda Slim, Junior, Barry, and Bob In WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange, and various animated animals in Film/MaryPoppinsReturns.

* Creator/GaryTrousdale: Made his feature-directing debut with the Academy Award winning ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Trousdale has been with Feature Animation since 1984, and has contributed to the following films: ''Oliver & Company'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''. Co-directed with Kirk Wise on ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' and ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. Currently a director at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation.

* Creator/JamesBaxter: Animator on ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' primarily Roger, Jessica, and the weasels, animator of Ariel and King Triton on ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', supervising animator on Belle from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Rafiki from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', and Quasimodo on ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', and later directed the animated sequences from ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''.

* Creator/KathyZielinski: Animator for the Disney Animated Canon; she was the supervising animator for the notorious Judge Claude Frollo, the BigBad of the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDame''; this character has more screentime than the other Disney villains.

* Creator/KirkWise: Received his first feature-directing credit on the Academy Award-winning ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', alongside Gary Trousdale. In 1996, he re-teamed with Trousdale and producer Don Hahn on ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', and then in 2001 on ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.

* Creator/PhilLofaro: Associate producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.

* Creator/TonyFucile: The supervising animator for [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Esmeralda]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Mufasa]].

* Creator/WillFinn: Supervising animator for Cogsworth on ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Iago on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and Laverne on ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange''.

* [[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 [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment that were perceived as anti-Semitic]] that led to both Disney and [=YouTube=] Red severing ties with him.

* 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 thanks to AuthorExistenceFailure. Purdum would return to Disney and provide some supplementary animation for ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' a few years later.

* Creator/JasonBrodkey: The producer of the Pixar/''Inside Out'' short ''Riley's First Date?''

* Creator/JoshCooley: One of the screenwriters for ''Inside Out'' and the director of the followup short ''Riley's First Date''.

* Creator/MarkNielsen: The producer of the Pixar/''Inside Out'' short ''Riley's First Date?''

* Music/KristenAnderson and Music/RobertLopez: Wife-and-husband composer duo who made the music of ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', the former of which had Kristen voice Kanga (her husband Robert is also one of the main minds behind ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' and ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'', the latter of which was his first association with Josh Gad, who was in ''Frozen''. Their next project is Disney's ''Bob The Musical''.

* '''Craetor/AlDempster''': Animator and background artist who worked with Walt during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, up until Walt's death; backrground supervisor of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}''.

* Creaetor/AlbertHurter: Animator and character designer. An experienced silent era animator, he joined Disney in 1931 and became the studio's first "inspirational artist" (what we now call a concept artist). Designed for various Silly Symphony and Mickey Mouse shorts, ''Snow White'' and ''Pinocchio''.
* Craetor/AlexKupershmidt: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Stitch (''WesterAnimation/Lilo&Stitch''), Koda (''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''), the hyenas (''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'')[[note]]co-supervised by David Burgess[[/note]], and Khan and General Li (''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'').

* Craetor/AlexKupershmidt: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Stitch (''WesterAnimation/LiloAndStitch''), Koda (''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''), the hyenas (''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'')[[note]]co-supervised by David Burgess[[/note]], and Khan and General Li (''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'').

* Craetor/AlexKupershmidt: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; he animated Stitch in ''Lilo & Stitch''.

* '''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/AnthonyDeRosa: Lead animator during the Disney Renaissance.

* '''''[[Creator/ArtBabbitt Arthur "Art" Babbitt]]''''': Most known for turning WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} into the character we all know and love. He also animated such characters as the Wicked Queen in ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', Geppetto in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', the mushrooms in the Nutcracker Suite scene of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', and the stork in ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}''--as well as contributed to the disastrous 1941 Disney studio strike, which led to his termination and feud with Walt and his family that went on until the 90's.

* Creator/AvaDuVernay: Director of ''Film/{{A wrinkle in Time|2018}}''.

* Creator/BarryCook: One of the co-directors of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.

* Creator/BillMelendez: Most famous for creating the ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'' TV specials, he worked at Disney in the early 40s until he left due to the animators' strike. He went on to work for Warner Bros. and UPA before setting up his own shop.
* '''Creator/BillPeet''': Bill began his Disney career as an In-Betweener[[note]]an artist who fills in the details on animated characters. Bill primarily worked on Donald Duck cartoons before getting so fed up with the task that he threw a loud tantrum and stomped out of the studio[[/note]], and got recognized for his original characters designs, working his way up to storyboard artist, and eventually becoming a Story Man in his own right, working on full-length films (such as ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'') and shorts before a personal falling out with Creator/WaltDisney led to Bill leaving the company and eventually becoming an acclaimed children's author.

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* Aaron Blaise: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Rajah in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Yao and the Ancestors in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', and young Nala in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' . Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''.
* Aaron Springer: One of the creators and showrunners of the multi-award winning ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' rebooted cartoon series.
* Abbe Raven: The chairman of the A&E network, which is a collaboration between Disney/ABC and Hearst Corporation.
* Abbey Konowitch: General manager of Walt Disney Records.
* Adam Green: Head of animation on the Mickey Mouse Mini Masterpiece, ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse''.
* '''Al Dempster''': Animator and background artist who worked with Walt during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, up until Walt's death; backrground supervisor of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}''.
* Al Eugster: A former Fleischer veteran who migrated to Disney and specialized in animating the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoons. He eventually returned to the Fleischer studio in 1940.
* '''Al Konetzni''': Helped develop and market Disney merchandise.
* '''''Al Milotte''''': Husband of Elma Milotte, producer for various Disney nature documentaries.
* '''''Al Taliaferro''''': Worked on the Donald Duck comic strip.
* Al Zinnen: Animator on several Disney Classics.
* Alan Bergman: President of the Walt Disney Studios.
* Alan Fine: President of Marvel Entertainment.
* Alan Horn: Succeeded Rich Ross as studio head, he is the current incumbent in the position.
* Alan N. Braverman: Senior executive vice president and general counsel for Disney.
* Alan Wagner: The founder of the Disney Channel.
* Albert Hurter: Animator and character designer. An experienced silent era animator, he joined Disney in 1931 and became the studio's first "inspirational artist" (what we now call a concept artist). Designed for various Silly Symphony and Mickey Mouse shorts, ''Snow White'' and ''Pinocchio''.
* Alex Kupershmidt: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; he animated Stitch in ''Lilo & Stitch''.
* Alfred L. Werker: Hollywood director who was tapped by Walt to helm the first live-action/animation hybrid film from the studio, the experimental and touring ''Film/TheReluctantDragon''.
* Amy Rabins: One of the founders of Disney's It's A Laugh Productions.
* Andre Fenley: Assistant supervising sound editor of ''Lilo & Stitch''.
* '''''André Vanneste''''': Helped publish Disney comics in Europe.
* Andrea Favilli: The creator of the Disney Legends award.

* Andrew Millstein: Current president of [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Walt Disney Animation Studios]].
* Andrew Probert: A tech designer on ''Tron'' and worked 4 years as a Show Designer at Walt Disney Imagineering.
* Andrew Stanton: The director of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' and its sequel ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', Pixar's masterpiece ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', and ''Film/JohnCarter''.
* Andy Mooney: The former chairman of Disney Consumer Products and the person who pushed for the creation of the Franchise/DisneyPrincess franchise after attending a Disney On Ice show, now the CEO of Fender Guitars.
* '''''Angel Angelopoulos''''': Helped market Disney in Greece and the Mediterranean countries, establish the California Institute for the Arts.
* Ann Daly: Executive in charge of Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo. She left the company in 1997 and was with Jeffrey Katzenberg and [=DreamWorks=] Animation until 2016, when both had to walk away for the most part after DWA's sale to Comcast/Universal.
* Anne Sweeney: Longtime Disney executive of the Disney Channel, Disney/ABC, and Disney Media. She stepped down in 2014 to become a television director.
* Annie Guenther: Animator who reportedly inserted a shot of a bare-chested woman in a flying scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''; this shot was edited when it was discovered on the [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection]] VHS version of the film.
* Anthony [=DeRosa=]: Lead animator during the Disney Renaissance.
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* Antonio Bertini: Helped market Disney in Italy.
* Armand Bigle: Helped market Disney in Europe and many other countries.
* '''''Armand Palivoda''''': Helped distribute Disney films in Switzerland.
* Arnoldo Mondadori: Published and managed Disney's ''Topolino'' magazine in Italy.

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* '''Art Linkletter''': Commentator for the opening day ceremonies for Disneyland who returned for the park's 50th anniversary.
* Art Stevens: Major Disney animator who started with ''Fantasia'' and eventually co-directed ''The Rescuers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' before retiring.
* Arthur Hiller: The director did at least two films for Disney, the second of which was his final major film, ''Burn Hollywood Burn''. This film killed both his career (along with Joe Eszterhas's) and the Alan Smithee alias, which he took in a botched attempt to disown it.
* Arthur Schmidt: The editor of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', ''The Rocketeer'', and ''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl''.
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* Baker Bloodworth: Associate producer on ''Pocahontas''.
* '''Barbara Walters''': Regular contributor to ABC.
* Barry Cook: One of the co-directors of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.
* Barry Josephson: One of the producers of ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''.
* Barry Sonnenfeld: Hollywood producer who co-produced ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' with Josephson.
* Bart Decrem: General manager of Disney Mobile.
* Basil Davidovich: Animator during Walt's life and Reithermann's tenure.
* '''Becky Fallberg''': Longtime Disney member, manager of the Ink and Paint Department from 1975 to 1986.
* Ben Burtt: Sound designer for the ''Star Wars'' movie and the man who gave the vocal effects to the character of WesternAnimation/WallE.
* Ben Donovan: Co-founder and president of the Maker Studios online company.
* Ben Lyons: TV personality who took over the ''At The Movies'' program from Disney for its next-to-last year of broadcast.
* Ben Mankiewicz: Radio personality who took over the ''At The Movies'' program for its semifinal year alongside Lyons and later co-hosts the ''Treasures From The Disney Vault'' program on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies with Leonard Maltin for the first several broadcasts of the block (Maltin eventually hosted the block solo).
* '''''Ben Sharpsteen''''': Was an early animator for Disney, and became a sequence director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', co-director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', director of Dumbo, production supervisor on ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''.
* Ben Sherwood: President of Disney-ABC Domestic Television.
* Ben Stein: The host and main opponent in ''Series/WinBenSteinsMoney'', which was made by Disney's Valleycrest Productions unit (the production company for ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'', on Comedy Central.
* '''''Bill Anderson''''': Produced a handful of Disney live-action films, and served on Disney's board of directors.
* Bill Damaschke: The longtime Creator/DreamWorksAnimation supremo and Chief Creative Officer until their rut in The New Ten's started out as an office assistant on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' (which he was credited on; it's the only time he worked with Disney before he became a major opponent to them) prior to joining [=DreamWorks=] the year that film was released, where he would be until 2015.
* Bill Ernest: Managing director of Disney Parks & Resorts Asia.
* '''Bill Justice''': Animator on some of the classic Disney cartoons.
* Bill Kelly: Writer who wrote ''Enchanted''.
* Bill Martin: Imagineer who contributed to the designs of many attractions, including Sleeping Beauty Castle, Snow White’s Adventures, Peter Pan’s Flight, and more.
* Bill Mechanic: Major player in Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo; he had some input in the critical Walt Disney Classics series that saw the Disney Animation library finally reach the private home market. He left Disney in 1993 and became an independent producer.

* Bill Perkins: Art director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''.
* Bill Roberts: A sequence director for ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''.
* '''''Bill Walsh''''': Comic author who was a producer and writer for a multitude of Disney Studio Classics and who also wrote a few Mickey Mouse strips here and there.
* '''''Blaine Gibson''''': Inbetweener and assistant animator working on most features through ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. Later became known as a key sculptor and modelmaker at Disneyland and other subsequent parks/resorts.
* Bob Bacon: Former Disney executive; now the boss of Alpha Group's Alpha Animation.
* '''''Bob Allen''''': Vice president of Walt Disney World from 1977 to 1987.
* '''Bob Booth''': Disney Imagineer who helped set up the Manufacturing and Production Organization, or MAPO, which was responsible for research and development for Disney productions, which he led from 1965 to 1985.
* '''Bob Broughton''': Camera effects artist to nearly every Disney motion picture from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' in 1937 to ''The Black Hole'' in 1979
* Bob Chapek: Succeeded Tom Staggs as the boss of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts when Staggs became president and Chief Operating Officer.
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* '''Bob Gurr''': Imagineer who designed most of the ride vehicles at Disneyland.
* Bob Hathcock: The director and one of the producers of ''WesternAnimation/DucktalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'', which had a key plot point recycled into ''Aladdin''.
* '''Bob Iger''': Originally the boss of ABC, he was promoted to the President and Chief Operating Officer position after Wells's death, Katzenberg's failure to claim the position, and Michael Ovitz's failure to hold onto it left the COO position open for Iger; he subsequently succeeded Eisner on short notice and immediately began negotiations to buy Pixar and bring Steve Jobs and John Lasseter into the full Disney fold. He succeeded, and under Iger's watch, Disney also bought Marvel and then Lucasfilm, and expanded their theme park business. Iger will retire in 2021.
* '''Bob Matheison''': Helped develop Walt Disney World and create its executive training program.
* '''Bob Moore''': Helped animate several classic Disney films, later worked in publicity and marketing.
* Bob Peterson: Pixar storyboard artist who co-directed ''Up'' and who came up with the original concept for ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'', which he originally directed.
* Bob Roath: Associate producer for Andrew Stanton's ''John Carter'' and ''Finding Dory''.
* '''''Bob Schiffer''''': Head of Disney's makeup department from 1968 to 2001.
* Bob Tzudiker: One of the screenwriters of ''Tarzan'' and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''.
* Bob Weis: President of Walt Disney Imagineering.
* Bob Weinstein: Brother of Harvey and the co-founder of Miramax/Dimension Films, who had a distribution deal with Disney as set up by a pre-ouster Jeffrey Katzenberg from 1994 to 2009.
* Bob Wickersham: The animator for the Mickey Mouse cartoon ''Thru the Mirror''. (He also directed Oscar-nominated short ''WesternAnimation/{{Imagination}}'' for Columbia.)
* Bonnie Arnold: Animation vet who produced ''Toy Story'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''. She moved to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation in the mid 2000s alongside Chris Sanders and Dean [=DeBlois=] and produced the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' films, becoming co-president of their feature animation field following the firing of Bill Damaschke.
* Bolhem Bouchiba: Supervising animator for "[[CardCarryingVillain evil genius]]" Dr. Jumba, the creator of Stitch in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''.
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* Brad Lewis: Producer who was the producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' and a co-director of ''Cars 2''. He had previously worked from [=DreamWorks=] Animation and moved on from Pixar to be associated with Warner Animation Group.
* Bran Ferrin: Former president of research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering after his company was acquired by Disney in 1993. His team created ABC's curved ticker display in Times Square.
* Brenda Chapman: Animator who has worked on-and-off for Disney, first as a story artist on ''Beauty And The Beast'' and ''The Lion King'', and then as a creative force at Pixar following a stint at [=DreamWorks=]; she directed ''Brave'', but transferred to ILM to get out of Disney, only to transfer back to [=DreamWorks=] when Disney bought ILM that month (although she finished up work she did at ILM).
* Bret Iwan: Took over as the voice of Mickey Mouse from Wayne Allwine when he died, and voices the character in every incarnation now except for Paul Rudish's cartoons.
* Brian Cummings: Announcer on Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo.
* Brian Fee: A member of Pixar's senior creative team.
* Brian Smits: Software engineer at Pixar who who received an InMemoriam honor in ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''.
* Brigham Taylor: Co-producer of the 2016 version of Walt Disney's Classic ''The Jungle Book'' alongside director Jon Favreau.
* Broose Johnson: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; two of the characters he animated are Chien-Po and Ling from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.
* Creator/TheBrothersChaps: Did writing for a few Disney Cartoons (Mostly WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder and WesternAnimation/GravityFalls), as well as made their own series of shorts for Creator/DisneyXD called WebAnimation/TwoMoreEggs
* Bruce Broughton: Composed the score for ''The Rescuers Down Under''.
* Bruce Rosenblum: President of business operations at Disney/ABC Television Group as of 2016.
* Bruce Vaughn: Former Chief Creative Executive at Disney Imagineering.

* Bruno Maglione: President of Marvel International.
* Bruno Tonioli: One of the judges on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC.
* '''Buddy Baker''': Composed over two-hundred scores for films, shorts, and Disneyland attractions.
* '''Burny Mattinson''': Animator who started with ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' and directed ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''.
* Burt Gillett: Stuck with Disney in the early years, known for directing ''WesternAnimation/MickeysOrphans'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'', and ''WesternAnimation/LonesomeGhosts''. At one point he left Disney to work on Creator/VanBeurenStudios "Rainbow Parade" cartoons, but returned as soon as the studio shut down. He worked at the Creator/WalterLantz studio in the late 30s before retiring from the business.
* Byron Howard: The eventual co-director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' and then ''Tangled'' and ''Zootopia''.

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* '''Carl Bongirno''': Imagineer who oversaw the growth and development of Disney's theme parks through the 1980s.

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* Carl W. Stalling: The man who composed the score for ''Steamboat Willie'', and the TropeNamer for MickeyMousing. Later worked with Warner Bros. on the Looney Tunes cartoons.
* Carrie Ann Inaba: One of the judges on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC.
* '''Carson Van Osten''': Comic artist.
* Channing Dungey: President of ABC's drama division who became the president of ABC Entertainment Group on short notice in 2016.

* Charles Gibson: A major anchor on ''Good Morning America''.
* Charles Jarrott: Director who oversaw three Dark Age live-action Disney films, including ''The Last Flight of Noah's Ark'' and ''Film/{{Condorman}}''.
* Charles "Nick" Nichols: He began as an animator on the shorts and had most of the responsibility on the Pluto cartoons and was also the supervising animator for the Coachman in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''. He later went to work at Creator/HannaBarbera, where he directed the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/CharlottesWeb''.
* Charles Wolcott: One of the music composers for ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''.
* '''Charlie Ridgway''': Major player in coordinating media coverage of Walt Disney World, including a Donald Duck 50th birthday show. He died on Christmas 2016.
* Chen-Yi Chang: Character design supervisor for ''Mulan''.
* Cheryl Butler: Started off as a 19-year old merchandise cashier in the Emporium gift shop on opening day (October 1, 1971) at Walt Disney World in Florida, and as a result was the first Disney cast member to sell a guest a souvenir on that day. Worked her way into merchandise management, specializing in innovating and reorganizing how Disney merchandise was advertised, presented (and conceived of in the first place). Two years before she officially retired, she "demoted" herself -- and took a massive pay cut in the process -- from management in order to return to being a sales associate. She wanted to spend the last years of her career interacting with Disney guests, and that's just what she did.
* Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The orchestra responsible for the music of ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000''.
* Chris Buck: Longtime animator who co-directed ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''.
* Chris Harrison: The host of ABC's ''The Bachelor'' series and the current host of ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire''.
* Chris Meledandri: Former Disney executive who ran Dawn Steel Pictures and co-produced ''Film/CoolRunnings'', the last film with John Candy to be released during Candy's life. He moved to Fox and stayed there until 2007, and then founded Illumination Entertainment at Comcast/Universal.
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* Chris Williams: Replaced Sanders as the director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' and one of the co-directors for ''Big Hero 6''.
* Christine [=McCarthy=]: The current Chief Financial Officer of Disney, succeeding Jay Rasulo.
* Christophe Beck: Music composer who has several Disney movies and shorts to his name.
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* '''''Chuck Abbott''''': One of Disneyland's foremost Attractions Hosts

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* '''Cicely Rigdon''': Supervisor of Guest Relations at Disneyland, later helped lead and develop the Disneyland Ambassador Program.
* '''''Clarence Nash''''': The voice of Donald Duck until his death in 1985. He was replaced by animator Creator/TonyAnselmo.
* Clark Spencer: Producer of ''Wreck-It Ralph'' and ''Lilo & Stitch''.
* '''Claude Coats''': Background painter, who worked on ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. Became a notable Imagineer during Disneyland's construction as a ride developer. Known for being very tall but a GentleGiant.
* Claudio Chiaromonte: Executive VP and managing director of The Walt Disney Company.
* Clay Morrow: One of the creators and showrunners of the multi-award winning ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' rebooted cartoon series.
* '''''Clyde Geronimi''''': Originally with the Lantz studio, he defected to Disney in 1931 and ascended to directing shorts, then becoming a co-director on the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Animated Classics]] from ''Cinderella'' to ''101 Dalmatians'' (he actually walked away from Disney in 1959). He then worked on the ''Spider Man'' cartoon in the 60's before retiring.
* Courtney Holt: The Chief Strategy Officer at Maker Studios.

* Craig Reylea: Senior Vice President for global marketing of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios from 2007 to 2013.
* Cy Young: Major animator at Disney until the 1941 strike; he resigned for his part in it and to join the Air Force. Cy committed suicide in 1964.
* '''''Cyril Edgar''''': Helped market Disney in the United Kingdom.
* '''''Cyril James''''': Managing director of Disney in the United Kingdom and Europe.
* Cynthia Hariss: Succeeded Paul Pressler as the boss of the Disney Theme Parks for a few years.

* Dan Buckley: Publisher and chief operating officer at Marvel Worldwide.
* Dan Fogelman: The screenwriter for ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''.
* Dan [=MacManus=]: Effects animator, working on most of the Disney features during the period between 1935 until 1973. Also wrote the story for the short ''The Trial of Donald Duck''.
* Dan Molina: Major editor at Disney/Pixar; one of his works is ''WesternAnimation/PlanesFireAndRescue''.
* Dan Rounds: Animator who is the producer of ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' in 1990, the first Mickey Mouse-centric cartoon after ''The Simple Things'' in 1953 and the only one made during Frank Wells and Jeffrey Katzenberg's tenures.
* Dan Scanlon: Pixar employee who directed ''Monsters University''.

* Daniel Gerson: One of the screenwriters for ''Big Hero 6'', and he worked on ''Monsters Inc.'' and ''Monsters University''. Gerson died of cancer in 2016, a year that also claimed Carrie Fisher and many others.
* Danny Troob: One of Disney's most prolific orchestra conductors/arrangers starting with ''Beauty And The Beast''.
* Daron Nefcy: The creator of the animated series ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''.
* Dave Burgess: Disney Renaissance animator; he worked on ''Tarzan'' and ''Hunchback'' (the latter had him as the supervising animator of the Archdeacon).
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* Dave Hollis: Publicity manager and vice president of Disney's theatrical endeavors.
* Dave Michener: An animator during Walt's time. He also co-directed ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' with Burny Mattinson, John Musker and Ron Clements.
* '''Dave Smith''': The first archivist for the Walt Disney Archives.
* Dave Stevens: The creator of ''Film/TheRocketeer'' graphic novel and a creative consultant for the film adaptation.
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* David Agnew: President of Walt Disney Records.
* David Hall: Storyman who produced horrific story sketches and paintings for ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' and a few for ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''.
* '''''David Hand''''': The director of many of Disney's animal cartoons, and was the director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''. He would later go over to Europe to make the obscure, short lived ''Animaland'' cartoon series.
* David Hartley: The producer, arranger, and conductor of the "Perfect World" song, which opens and closes ''The Emperor's New Groove''. Also arranged vocals for the credits song, "My Funny Friend and Me".
* David Hoberman: Producer who helmed a handful of Disney films; one of the most noteworthy is 2011's ''Film/TheMuppets''. He also co-created ''Series/{{Monk}}'', which Disney had a hand in.
* David Maisel: An associate of Michael Ovitz who followed him to Disney and then out. He took over Marvel in 2005 and facilitated their acquisition by Disney, at which point he left.
* David Newman: Composed the soundtrack to ''WesternAnimation/DucktalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp''.
* David Perry: Game designer for Virgin Interactive who worked with Disney on the Sega Genesis version of ''VideoGame/{{Aladdin|VirginGames}}'', which involved Musker, Clements and Katzenberg and was the third highest selling game on the system after the first two ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games, and was involved with ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'' as well; Perry later founded Shiny Interactive.
* David Reynolds: Screenwriter for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''; had previously provided additional screenwriting for ''Tarzan''.
* David Schrader: Executive vice president of the Disney Theatrical Group, who administers the Broadway shows.
* David Stainton: Former animation executive at Disney. He got replaced by Lasseter and Catmull.
* David Weimers: Co-producer of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' past its first season.
* David Zippel: Music/AlanMenken's lyricist on ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' and the "Star-Spangled Man" musical number in Marvel's Masterpiece ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.
* Dean Cundey: 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]]

* Debbie [=McClellan=]: The vice president of The Muppets Studio.
* Deems Taylor: The host and one of the main helmers of Walt Disney's Masterpiece ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. His voice recordings for the movie have sadly been lost; the remaining traces of it are on the 1991 Walt Disney Classics VHS and Laserdisc version of the film. [[note]] All rereleases past this version have him dubbed over by Corey Burton [[/note]]
* Del Connell: One of the writers of ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''.
* Denise Ream: The producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur''.
* Dev Ross: Voice director who worked with Disney on ''Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers''.
* Diane Sawyer: A major anchor at ABC News.
* Dick Cook: Marketing mastermind who succeeded Peter Schneider as studio head, he spearheaded a revival of Disney's movie business. He now sits on Creator/LegendaryPictures's board and started his own studio a la Katzenberg and Roth in 2015.
* '''''Dick Huemer''''': Former Fleischer veteran who became a prominent animator, storyboard artist and writer for the studio throughout the decades. He even directed two shorts; "The Whalers" and "Goofy and Wilbur".
* Dick Lundy: A very skilled animator and director, created the character of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and directed several of his shorts. He would later go on work at MGM's cartoon department on the ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'' cartoons, and after that went to Creator/WalterLantz's studio to work on their WesternAnimation/AndyPanda, Musical Miniatures and WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker short subjects. He would contribute animation to Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' and several Creator/HannaBarbera projects later on.
* '''Dick Nunis''': 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]]
* '''''Didier Fouret''''': Helped publish Disney works in France.
* '''Dodie Roberts''': Animator for ''Fantasia'', ''Cinderella'', and ''Sleeping Beauty''.

* Don Chaffey: The live-action director of ''Pete's Dragon''.
* '''Don [=DaGradi=]''': Screenwriter of several films, most notably ''Film/MaryPoppins''.
* '''Don Edgren''': Imagineer who worked on structural design during construction of Walt Disney theme parks.
* '''Don Escen''': Assistant to Roy O. Disney, in charge of Disney's financial affairs.
* Don Graham: A critical figure in the development of Disney animation, Graham hosted "Action Analysis" classes daily for animators at Disney from 1932 to 1941, not only giving them formal art training, but also having them analyze live action film at different speeds, as well as critique their own shorts as a means of how to improve them. He would later publish his own art book, "Composing Pictures", which is highly valued by many veteran animators.
* Don Griffith: Layout artist on the Disney films from ''Victory Through Air Power'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''.
* Don Hahn: Began working for Disney on ''Pete's Dragon''. He also worked as associate producer on the animated sequences in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', and later produced ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia 2000}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', and ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', and the executive producer of ''Film/WakingSleepingBeauty'', the Disneynature movies, and the live-action Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon remake movies.
* Don Hall: One of the co-directors for ''Big Hero 6''.
* Don Harper: The conductor of the Disneynature jingle and ''Tarzan''.
* Don Lusk: A prominent Disney animator, and notably one of the last surviving Golden Age Disney artists--as of 2015, he is 102 years old!
* Don Mink: One of the founders of Disney's It's A Laugh Productions.[[index]]

* Donald W. Ernst: The primary editor for Creator/RalphBakshi's films in the 70's who moved from Bakshi to Walt Disney Feature Animation after the Management Shift and became a major helmer for ''Aladdin'' and ''Fantasia 2000''.
* '''Donn Tatum''': A previous boss of Disney after Walt's death. He served as Director Emeritus of the company for the last year of his life.
* '''Dorothea Redmond''': Participated in building and interior design at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
* Dorothy [=McKim=]: The producer of the Mickey Mouse Mini Masterpiece ''Get A Horse!'' and other Disney Shorts Classics.
* Doug Sweetland: Former Pixar employee and star who directed, wrote and starred in their mini classic ''WesternAnimation/{{Presto}}'', which became the name of one of their animation systems.

* Earl Felton: Screenwriter on ''20,000 Leagues Under The Sea''.
* Earl Hurd: One of the silent cartoon animator's final works was Walt Disney's Masterpiece ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''; he died three years after that film's theatrical release.
* Ed Catmull: One of Pixar's notable members, he's the current head of animation at Disney.
* Ed Gombert: A longtime animator at Disney. In addition to working on a lot of the Disney Renaissance movies, he's also the author of the notorious fabricated memo written in Peter Schneider's name that changed the names of all the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Animated Classics]] in protest of ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'''s renaming, but he got his department [[WhatWereYouThinking in trouble]] instead when the bogus memo got to Jeffrey Katzenberg's desk and Jeffrey thought it was real.
* Ed Grier: Longtime Disney executive who was president of the Disneyland Resort until 2009.
* Ed Love: An animator for Disney, later went on to work for Creator/WalterLantz (animated the earliest incarnations of Buzz Buzzard), MGM and Hanna-Barbera.
* Edward Meck: Helped advertise the newly-opened Disney theme park.
* Elissa Margolis: The Senior Vice President and General Manager of The Disney Store.
* '''''Elma Milotte''''': Wife of Al Milotte, producer of various Disney nature documentaries.
* Emery Hawkins: Sporadically worked at Disney for very short periods of time. Did some animation for ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}''.
* Enrico Casarosa: The director of the Pixar Mini Classic ''La Luna''.
* Erdman Penner: The writer of ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' and the Mini Classic cartoon ''The Reluctant Dragon''.
* Eric Coleman: Senior vice president of Disney Television Animation.
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* Eric Radomski: Senior vice president at Marvel Television.
* Ernest Terrazas: One of the writers of ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''.
* Ernie Nordli: Animator who worked as layout artist on ''Dumbo'', ''Fantasia'', ''Sleeping Beauty'', and ''101 Dalmatians''.
* '''Esmond Cardon "Card" Walker''': Major Disney executive who oversaw the studio during its Dark Years. He remained an adviser to the studio until his death in 2005, and his last 6 years were as Director Emeritus.
* '''''Eyvind Earle''''': Background artist and color stylist on such films as ''Peter Pan'' and ''Lady and the Tramp''. He is also credited with giving the 1959 animated feature ''Sleeping Beauty'' its medieval look. Earle first rose to prominence at the studio in 1953, when an animated short that he worked on, "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom", won both an Academy Award and a Cannes Film Festival Award.

* Fabian Dib: The captain of the Disney Wonder ship.
* [[LetsPlay/PewDiePie Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg]]: The [[Main/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 [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment that were perceived as anti-Semitic]] that led to both Disney and [=YouTube=] Red severing ties with him.
* Ferrell Barron: The producer of ''Planes: Fire & Rescue''.
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* Floyd Huddleston: Co-composed the "Love" song from ''Robin Hood''.
* '''Floyd Norman''': One of the first African-Americans hired by the studio. To this day he still works at Disney as a storyboard artist.
* Ford Beebe: One of the writers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''.
* Fox Carney: Manager of the Animation Research Library.
* Frank Armitage: Noted Disney architect and Imagineer; he passed away on Jan 7, 2016.
* '''''Frank Churchill''''': Music composer during the 1930's and early '40's. Composed songs for ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''.
* '''Frank Gifford''': Husband of Kathie Lee Gifford who worked on Disney's Wide World of Sports.
* Frank Marshall: Lucasfilm/Spielberg collaborator who worked on most of the ''Star Wars/Indiana Jones'' films, Creator/MNightShyamalan's films ''Film/TheSixthSense'' and ''Film/{{Signs}}'', and several Studio Ghibli films.
* '''''Frank Wells''''': President and Chief Operating Officer from 1984 to 1994. Said to have been the voice of reason amongst the executives of the time. Known for wanting to climb the highest mountains in the world. Tragically died in a helicopter crash in 1994, which was the last straw that led to the split with those executives; Well's death eventually ended both Jeffrey Katzenberg and his boss/rival Michael Eisner's careers at Disney along with their decades-long relationship.
* '''Fred Joerger''': Created many scale models of film sets and theme park attractions, including Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle, and later served as field art director for EPCOT Center.

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* Fred Wolf: Supervising producer of ''Ducktales'' for its first season; more well known for bringing ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' to television.
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* Frode Fjellheim: Norwegian musician who composed the opening music to ''Frozen''.

* Galyn Susman: A short producer at Pixar.
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* Gary Goldman: Leading animator on ''Robin Hood'', ''The Rescuers'', ''Pete's Dragon'', and ''The Small One'', he defected with Don Bluth and worked alongside him ever since.
* Gary Krisel: The founder of Disney Television Animation.
* Gary Marsh: The president and chief creative officer of the Disney Channel.
* Gary Rosen: General manager and chief marketing officer of Disney English, a Chinese branch dedicated to teaching Chinese children English through Disney characters.
* Gary Rydstrom: Sound designer who has worked with Pixar.
* Gary Trousdale: Made his feature-directing debut with the Academy Award winning ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Trousdale has been with Feature Animation since 1984, and has contributed to the following films: ''Oliver & Company'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''. Co-directed with Kirk Wise on ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' and ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. Currently a director at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation.
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* Gaudenzio Capelli: Helped market Disney in Italy.

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* '''George Bodenheimer''': Executive chairman of ESPN.
* George Kalogridis: The current president of Walt Disney World in Florida.
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* George Mitchell: Former chairman of the Disney, resigned to join Barack Obama's presidential cabinet.
* George Scribner: Animator who directed ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper''.
* George Stephanopoulos: The chief anchor of ABC News.
* Geraldine Laybourne: Worked at Disney for 2 years after departing Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, but left ABC and started up Oxygen Media.
* Glen Daum: The composer of the orchestral music for ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''.
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* '''Creator/GlenKeane''': Began his career as an animator on ''The Rescuers''. He animated the fight scene with the bear in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', and was supervising animator of Ratigan and Fidget in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''; Sykes, Fagin, Georgette, and Jenny in ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany''; Ariel in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''; Marahute in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''; Beast in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''; WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}; WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}; WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}; John Silver in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet''; and Rapunzel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. Was also the initial director and ultimately executive producer of the latter film. He left Disney in 2012 after working on ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'' to set up his own studio.
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* Glenn Slater: Lyricist who worked with Alan Menken on ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' and ''Tangled'' (both [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} the movie]] and [[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries the TV series]]).
* Gore Verbinski: The director of the ''Pirates Of The Caribbean'' movies.
* '''''Grace Bailey''''': Oversaw and developed Disney's inking and painting.
* Graham Hopper: Former EVP/GM of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios.
* Greg Coleman: VP of marketing at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disneytoon Studios Worldwide.
* Greg Emmer: Retired senior vice president of operations at Disneyland Resort.
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* Gunnar Mansson: Helped market Disney in the Nordic countries.
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* Gustaf Tenggren: A chief illustrator for Walt Disney Productions during the Golden Age; he had a major impact in 4 out of the first 5 films in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon plus several shorts.

* Hal Ambro: A major animator during Walt's time; from 1946's ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' to 1967's ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'', he worked on all the classic films including ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' and ''Film/MaryPoppins''.
* '''''Hamilton "Ham" Luske''''': Was the man who brought several of the Nine Old Men into Disney, and one of the directors of ''Lady And The Tramp''.

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* '''''Hugh Attwooll''''': Worked on a number of live-action Disney films.

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* Harold D. Schuster: Hollywood director who was one of the helmers of Disney's hybrid classic ''So Dear To My Heart''.
* Harold Young: A sequence director for ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''.
* '''''Harper Goff''''': Art director for ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', later assisted in designing Disneyland.
* '''Harriet Burns''': First woman Imagineer.
* '''Harrison "Buzz" Price''': Research economist who was crucial in the siting and development of Disneyland and Walt Disney World; CEO Michael Eisner called him as being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself."
* Harry Arends: Writer and producer for the ''WesternAnimation/DisneySingAlongSongs'' home video series.
* Harry Clork: One of the screenwriters for ''The Reluctant Dragon''.
* Harvey Weinstein: The boss of Miramax Films, who worked with Disney for 15 years and distributed several cinema classics such as ''Film/PulpFiction''.
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* Hendel Butoy: One of the directors of ''Fantasia 2000''; also co-directed ''The Rescuers Down Under''.
* Helene Hahn: Feared attorney who represented Disney during Katzenberg's tenure at the company; also known as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Attila The Hahn]]".
* Henry Andersson: Current captain of the Disney Dream ship.
* Henry Jackman: Music composer for ''Wreck-It Ralph''.

* Henry Selick: Associate of Tim Burton's who departed Disney with him. He worked with Burton on several other projects for Disney.
* '''''Herb Ryman''''': A talented concept artist who created the first designs of Disneyland. He also served as an art director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. He developed artwork and designs for the other Disney resorts until his death in 1989.
* '''''Hideo Amemiya''''': Served in executive positions at Disney resorts in Japan.
* '''''Hideo "Indian" Aramaki''''': Trained many chefs for Tokyo Disneyland.
* Hiro Narita: Cinematographer who worked on ''Never Cry Wolf'', ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', and ''Film/TheRocketeer'' for Disney; the first of these won him the Boston Critics Award and the National Critics Award.
* Homer Brightmen: One of the writers of ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''.
* '''Horst Koblischek''': Helped market Disney in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
* '''''Howard Ashman''''': 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.
* Howard Roffman: Executive vice president of franchise management at Lucasfilm.
* '''Ilene Woods''': The voice of WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} in the original masterpiece.
* Irene Mecchi: A major screenwriter who has worked often with Disney. She's one of the screenwriters for ''The Lion King'', and also contributed to ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' and ''Hercules''.
* '''Irving Ludwig''': Vice president (1953-1959) and later president (1959-1980) of Buena Vista Distribution Co., helped distribute Disney films.
* Issac "Ike" Perlmutter: The CEO of Marvel Entertainment.
* Itzhak Perlman: Famed violinist who was the lead violin for ''Fantasia 2000''; he also introduced the second number of the film, Pines of Rome.
* Ivo Coveney: Lead costume and specialist costume designer, works for Disney and Industrial Light and Magic and has most notably created the Darth Vader suit, all of Amidala's wardrobe, and the Ant-Man suit.

* J. A. C. Redford: Music conductor who directed the Disney Orchestra and Choir on a few movies such as ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''Frozen''.
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* Jack Bradbury: An animator who worked on some of the key scenes in the first Disney Animated Classics. Bradbury was one of the animators against Walt in the 1941 strike, and left and moved to Leon Schlesinger Productions for a while, but he eventually became one of the few strikers to return to Disney full-time on a handful of books, though he cut back in 1970 after eye problems.
* Jack Donohue: Director who helmed Disney's version of ''Babes In Toyland''.
* Jack Dorsey: Co-founder of Website/{{Twitter}} and board member at Disney.
* '''Jack Hannah''': Began working as an inbetweener and clean-up artist on many early Mickey, Donald, and Silly Symphony cartoons. He was a key animator on the Academy Award winning film "The Old Mill".
* Jack Kinney: Animator/sequence director of films such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}''. He first directed Goofy in "Goofy's Glider" and soon became established as the director of the Goofy cartoons.
* Jack King: Animator and sequence director on such films as ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad''. Prolific director of the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoons; was THE Duck Director until Jack Hannah took over completely.
* '''Jack Lindquist''': President of Disneyland from 1990 to 1993.
* '''''Jack Olsen''''': Manager of Disneyland's Merchandising Division.
* '''''Jack Wagner''''': Park Announcer for Disneyland until 1993.
* '''''Jack Wrather''''': Former owner of the Disneyland Hotel; he rebuffed attempts by Disney to buy the building until Michael Eisner purchased most of his company after his death and sold off everything except the hotel, which was permanently integrated into Walt Disney Parks & Resorts; a lot of Wrather's other work currently belongs to Eisner's apprentice Jeffrey Katzenberg's Creator/DreamWorksAnimation.
* '''James Algar''': Animator on ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', the animation director of ''The Sorceror's Apprentice'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', and directed sequences in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad''.

* James Bobin: The director of the two ''Muppets'' films done by Disney in The New 10's (the first of which introduced their current film logo), and ''Alice Through the Looking Glass''.
* James Bodrero: One of the writers of ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''.
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* '''James Cora''': In charge of managing and planning for Disney's international parks.
* James "Jim" Coleman: Longtime animator at Disney who did background and color styling from ''The Rescuers'' to ''Beauty And The Beast''. He eventually resigned from the studio in order to pursue a career in fine art, which saw him mixing Disney characters with.
* James Ford Murphy: The director of the Pixar short ''Lava''.
* James Goldston: President of ABC News.
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* James Levine: The music director for ''Fantasia 2000''; he introduced the "Pomp and Circumstance" segment in the film.
* '''''James "Jim" [=MacDonald=]''''': Replaced Walt as the voice of Mickey Mouse.
* James Pentecost: Producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''.
* James Pitaro: The co-chairman of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media, and the boss of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios.
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* Jan Pinkava: Screenwriter for ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''.
* Jan Smith: Executive who worked on what became the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series.
* Janice Marinelli: President of Disney/ABC domestic television and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (AKA, Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo).
* Jared Bush: Co-writer/director of the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''.
* Jason Brodkey: The producer of the Pixar/''Inside Out'' short ''Riley's First Date?''
* Jasper Blystone: Assistant director on ''The Reluctant Dragon''.
* Jay Rasulo: Originally the head of the Disney theme parks, he swapped jobs with Tom Staggs in 2009 and became the CFO. When Staggs took the President's position, Rasulo retired, but he is still advising the company.
* Jayne Parker: Executive vice president and chief human resources officer for The Walt Disney Company.
* Jean-Francois Camilleri: The executive vice president and general manager of the Disneynature film banner.
* Jean-Pierre Quenet: One of the producers of ''WesternAnimation/DucktalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp''.
* Jeff Nuzzi: Former Disney executive who co-founded the Like Pizza digital studio with Bob Sprang in 2016.
* Jeff Patch: An assistant director on ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''.
* Jeff Sellinger: The senior vice president of the learning department at Disney Publishing Worldwide.
* Jeffrey Katzenberg: 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.
* Jeffrey M. Howard: Screenwriter for ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''.
* Jeffrey Price: One of the two screenwriters for ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' and a movie called ''Trenchcoat''.
* Jeffrey Rochlis: A former Creator/{{Sega}} employee who was tapped by Katzenberg to help with Imagineering. He was a major mind in Euro Disney (a.k.a. Disneyland Paris), but was canned prior to the park opening; he sued Disney for the termination, but lost his suit.
* Jennifer Lee: Co-director of ''Frozen'' and current Chief Creative Officer of Disney.
* Jeph Loeb: Executive vice president of Marvel Television.
* Jeremy Milton: Editor of ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'' and ''Zootopia''.
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* Jerry Livingston: One of the music composers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''.
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* Jessica Ambinder-Rojas: One of the editors of ''Fantasia 2000'' and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''.
* Jim Cox: One of the animation screenplay writers for ''The Rescuers Down Under''.
* Jim Flamberg: One of the producers of the ''Toy Story'' soundtrack.
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* Jim Jimirro: The first boss of Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo.
* Jim Kallett: The editor of the Pixar short classic ''Geri's Game''.
* Jim Morris: President of Pixar.
* Jim Reardon: One of the story writers for ''WALL-E'', ''Wreck-It Ralph'', and ''Zootopia''.

* '''''Jimmy Johnson''''': Oversaw the rise of the Walt Disney Music Company, served as its president from 1970-1975.

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* '''Joe Fowler''': Retired real admiral of the Navy who was the construction boss and then general manager for Disneyland, and then supervised the construction of Disney World.
* '''Joe Grant''': Character designer and storyman at Disney during the early years of the Studios. He worked on such films as ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', and ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''. He returned to working at the Studio to work on the visual development on ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and was a story adviser on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''; he continued to be a part of the studio until his death in 2005 at the age of 97.
* Joe Hale: Animator who had worked with Walt Disney for a long time, and remained on past Walt's death. He was the producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', and the movie's [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing]] and his nonchalant attitude about it to new boss Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had commented on Disney's luck of late [[note]] Jeffrey's phrase is the TitleDrop for ''Waking Sleeping Beauty'' [[/note]], led to Katzenberg firing Hale and ending both his long tenure at Disney Animation and his career; he promptly retired.
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* Joe Roth: Replaced Jeffrey Katzenberg as the studio head in 1994. He left the position in 1999 and founded Revolution Studios and then Roth Films, the latter of which has made movies with Disney, notably the live-action remakes in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon.
* Joe Rohde: Veteran executive at Walt Disney Imagineering. Most notable for being the mastermind behind Disney's Animal Kingdom park, as well as working on Epcot's Maelstrom and Captain EO and Pleasure Island's Adventurers Club. Currently serves in a supervising role in Marvel attractions being added to the parks, starting with Ride/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyMissionBreakout. Has a distinctive earring collection that has distorted his left earlobe.
* Joel Siegel: The film critic on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' until his death in 2007.
* John Beug: Former vice president of Walt Disney Records.
* John Blackburn: The CEO of Avalanche Software, which is owned by Disney; they are the ones behind Disney Infinity.
* John Canemaker: Independent animator who has provided commentary on several Disney DVD releases.
* John Carnochan: Editor on several Disney Animated Classics in the early 90's, and followed Katzenberg to [=DreamWorks=] afterwards.
* John Debney: The music director for ''The Emperor's New Groove''.
* John E. Pepper, Jr: Succeeded George Mitchell as company chairman, and remained in the position until CEO Bob Iger took it over in 2012.
* '''John Hench''': Started in the Disney Story Department and later painted backgrounds for "The Nutcracker Suite" segment of ''Fantasia''. He also worked on ''Cinderella'' and ''Alice in Wonderland''.
* John Kahrs: The director of the Disney Mini Classic ''Paperman''.
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* John Lee Hancock: Director who helmed three Disney Studios projects: ''Film/{{The Rookie|2002}}'', ''Film/{{The Alamo|2004}}'', and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''.
* John Musker: Began his career at Disney as an animator on such films as ''WesternAnimation/TheSmallOne'', ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. He co-directed with Ron Clements ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' (their first 3D feature).
* John P. Miller: One of the men on the "Baby Weems" segment in ''Film/TheReluctantDragon''.
* John Pleasants: Co-president of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios.
* John Pomeroy: A close associate of Don Bluth who departed his studio when Bluth's fortunes went downhill, and was the lead animator of Milo for ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', John Smith for ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', and the Firebird for ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia 2000}}''.
* John Rood: Head of marketing for Disney Channels Worldwide as of 2016.
* John Sanford: Animator during the Disney Renaissance. He also co-directed ''Home On The Range''.
* John Skipper: President of ESPN.
* John Turitzin: Executive vice president of Marvel Entertainment.
* John Walker: Producer who produced ''The Incredibles'' and ''Tomorrowland'' and had a special thanks credit in ''Brave''; he was originally attached to ''The Good Dinosaur'' before leaving for the live-action project.
* Johnny Mercer: Wrote the TheVillainSucksSong from ''Robin Hood'' known as "The Phony King Of England".
* Jon Brion: The composer for the Pixar short ''The Blue Umbrella''.
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* Jon Snoddy: Head of Disney Imagineering.
* Jonas Rivera: The producer of Pixar's Masterpiece ''Inside Out''.
* Jonathon Roberts: Disney screenwriter worked on ''The Lion King'', ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', and ''Monsters. Inc''.
* Jordan Roberts: One of the screenwriters for ''Big Hero 6''.
* Jorgen Klubien: Animation writer who did ''The Lion King'', ''Cars'', ''Frankenweenie'', and ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''.
* Joseph Holt: Main art director for Paul Rudish's ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013''.
* Joseph Sabo: One of the screenwriters for ''Pinnochio''.
* Josie Trinidad: Co-head of story on ''Zootopia''.
* Josh Cooley: One of the screenwriters for ''Inside Out'' and the director of the followup short ''Riley's First Date''.
* Josh Meador: Special Effects man at Disney during Walt's life.
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* '''Joyce Carlson''': Helped design the ''It's a Small World'' attraction.
* Judge Whitaker: Animator on a lot of cartoon classics.
* Judith Estrin: Board member at Disney.
* Julianne Hough: One of the judges on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC.
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* Juliet Aires: Story consultant on ''Tarzan''.
* '''Julie Reihm Casaletto''': First Disneyland ambassador.
* Justin Marks: Screenwriter for Jon Favreau's ''The Jungle Book''.

* Karen Dufilho: The producer of the Pixar mini classic ''Geri's Game''.
* Karey Kirkpatrick: One of the animation screenwriters for ''The Rescuers Down Under''.
* Karl Holz: President of the Disney Cruise Line.
* Katherine Ringgold: The editor of the Pixar short ''Presto''.
* Katherine Sarafian: Pixar employee who produced their short ''Lifted''.
* Kathie Lee Gifford: Was Regis Philbin's co-host on the ''Live'' morning show (which was distributed by Buena Vista Television) until 2000.
* Kathleen Battle: Sung a soprano vocal at the end of the Pomp & Circumstance number in ''Fantasia 2000''.
* Kathleen Gavin: Associate producer on ''The Rescuers Down Under''.

* Kathy Zielinski: Animator for the Disney Animated Canon; she was the supervising animator for the notorious Judge Claude Frollo, the BigBad of the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDame''; this character has more screentime than the other Disney villains.
* '''''Kay Kamen''''': Helped license Disney characters.
* Kay Nielsen: Sketch artist, storyman, and designer. Nielsen created designs for "The Night on Bald Mountain" segment in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. During the 1940s, he worked on concept designs for an early version of ''The Little Mermaid'' and "Ride of the Valkyries". In the mid-1980s, his sketches were brought out of the Disney Archives to inspire the animators who worked on the 1989 ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', and he ended up getting a posthumous "visual development" credit.
* Kelly Ripa: Replaced Kathie Lee Gifford as Regis Philbin's co-host on ''Live''.
* Kelsey Mann: One of the story writers for Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' and the director and writer of the ''Monsters Inc.'' short ''Party Central''.
* Kem Weber: The architect of the original Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank in 1939.
* '''Ken Anderson''': Art director on ''Snow White'', designed [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Shere Khan]] and [[Film/PetesDragon1977 Elliot]], and production designer on ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', ''DisnWesternAnimationy/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''.
* '''Ken Annakin''': Director of two live-action Disney films.
* Ken Bunt: President of the Disney Music Group, which includes Walt Disney Records. Hollywood Records, and Disney Music Publishing.
* Ken Duncan: Animator of the Disney Renaissance; he animated Jane Porter in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', which included a very difficult continuous scene when it was improvised by Creator/MinnieDriver.
* Ken Koonce: Co-producer of ''Ducktales'' for its second thru fourth seasons.
* Ken O'Brien: Animator on features from ''Snow White'' to ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.
* '''Ken O'Connor''': Layout artist on thirteen features and a hundred shorts. Features including ''Snow White'', ''Fantasia'' and ''Lady and the Tramp''. After a short retirement, O'Connor returned to Disney to help develop shows such as ''World of Motion'' and ''Universe of Energy'' at EPCOT, and the film ''Back to Neverland'' for the Animation Tour at the Disney/ MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida.
* Ken Potrock: Vice president of the Disney Vacation Club.
* Ken Stuart Duncan: The supervising animator for Jane Porter in ''Tarzan''.
* Kevin A. Mayer: Senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary for the Walt Disney Company as a whole.
* Kevin Deters: Animator at Disney who dealt with a few shorts including ''The Ballad Of Nessie'' and ''How To Hook Up Your Home Theaters.''
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* Kevin Lima: Directed ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''.
* Kevin Munroe: The producer of ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic''.
* Kevin Reher: Casting director at Pixar.
* Kevin Yasuda: Story writer for the opening number of ''Fantasia 2000'', Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
* Kira Lehtomaki: Animation supervisor on ''Zootopia''.
* Kirk Bodyfelt: Assistant artistic coordinator on ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' and primary artistic coordinator on ''Brother Bear''.
* Kirk Hansen: Story writer for the live-action scenes of ''Fantasia 2000''.
* Kirk Wise: Received his first feature-directing credit on the Academy Award-winning ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', alongside Gary Trousdale. In 1996, he re-teamed with Trousdale and producer Don Hahn on ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', and then in 2001 on ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
* Klay Hall: The director of Disneytoon Studios' ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''.
* Kori Rae: Producer of ''Monsters University''.
* Kristen Anderson and Robert Lopez: Wife-and-husband composer duo who made the music of ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', the former of which had Kristen voice Kanga (her husband Robert is also one of the main minds behind ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' and ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'', the latter of which was his first association with Josh Gad, who was in ''Frozen''. Their next project is Disney's ''Bob The Musical''.
* Kristina Reed: 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}}''.
* Kyle Laughlin: Senior vice president of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media Labs.

* Lane Merrifield: The founder of Club Penguin; he resigned in 2012 after clashing with Disney.
* Larry Clemmons: Story animator at Disney; two of his works are ''Robin Hood'' and ''The Rescuers'', and he's one of the screenwriters for ''The Reluctant Dragon''.
* Larry Lansburgh: Producer and cameraman for various Disney films.
* Larry Morey: Animator who was one of the sequence directors on ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs'' and later was one of the music directors for ''The Reluctant Dragon''.
* Laurel Ladevich: The producer of the ''Monsters Inc.'' short ''Party Central''.
* Lauren [=MacMullan=]: The director of the Mickey Mouse Mini Masterpiece ''Get A Horse!''.
* Laurene Powell Jobs: The wife of Steve Jobs, she inherited his fortune and holdings in Disney when he passed away; this currently makes her the largest shareholder in Disney.
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* Dr. LC Williams-Johnson: Vice Chairman of the Board until 2016.
* Lebo M: African folk music composer who arranged the Swahili chants in ''The Lion King''.
* Lee Blair: The husband of Mary Blair and the younger brother of Preston Blair, he was an artist at Disney.
* Lee Unkrich: The director of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 & 3]]'', ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' (he was co-director with Stanton), and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' (which he co-directed with Pete Docter).
* '''''Leigh Harline''''': One of the music composers for ''Snow White''.
* Len Goodman: One of the judges on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC.
* '''''Leonard Goldenson''''': Former president of ABC; he passed in 1999.
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* Leslie Ferraro: The president of Disney Consumer Products.
* Leslie Moes: Post-production supervisor on ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''.
* Lewis M. Allen: One of the Hollywood producer's later projects was ''Never Cry Wolf'', the first film released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner (but without the iconic WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'s Castle logo; that didn't come until after the Management shift that let Eisner, Katzenberg, and Wells into Disney, and it premiered with ''The Black Cauldron''.
* '''Linda Larkin''': The voice of Jasmine from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''.
* Linda Woolverton: One of Disney's most prolific screenwriters from the Disney Renaissance onward.
* Lindsey Collins: The producer of Andrew Stanton's films since ''Wall*E''. Not to be confused with the late Lindsay Collins, who was male and ironically was a marine biologist who died one year before ''Finding Dory''.
* Lisa Keene: Concept and background artist who started at Disney during the Disney Renaissance.
* Lisa M. Poole: Associate producer of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''.
* Lisa M. Smith: Production manager of ''Mulan''.
* Lisa [=McCormick=]: Assistant editor of ''Lilo & Stitch''.
* Lloyd Braun: Boss of ABC for the late 90's and early 2000's, when the network was really struggling; this struggle earned Braun the title of "[[MedalOfDishonor worst executive of the year]]" in 2001 from the San Francisco News. Braun DID pitch ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', but they were too little, too late to save his ABC career or Michael Eisner's Disney career when the problems hit their boiling point in 2004.
* '''Lloyd Richardson''': Edited various Disney films.
* Lori Korngiebel: Post production supervisor of ''Lilo & Stitch'' for its California operations (a lot of it was done at the Florida studio prior to Disney shutting their doors).
* Louis D'Esposito: The co-president of Marvel Studios.
* '''Lucille Martin''': Secretary to Walt Disney, later vice president and special assistant to the Walt Disney Company Board of Directors.
* Lyle Underkoffler: The vice president of the digital angle of Disney Publishing Group.
* Lylle Breier: Senior vice president of global marketing partnerships and strategic alliances, promotions, synergy and special effects at the Walt Disney Studios.
* Lyndsey Collins: The producer of ''Finding Dory''.
* Lynwen Brennan: The executive vice president and general manager of Lucasfilm.

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* M. T. Carney: Marketing executive who created the campaign for ''Film/JohnCarter''. When that movie bombed, she was asked to resign.
* Mack David: One of the music composers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''.
* Marc Breaux: One of the choreographers on ''Mary Poppins''.
* Marc E. Smith: A co-writer on ''Frozen Fever''.
* Marc Greenberg: The producer of the Pixar short ''The Blue Umbrella''.
* Marc Okrand: Developed the Atlantean language in the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
* Marc Sondheimer: Pixar employee who produced ''Piper''.
* Marc Teren: Former director of business development for consumer products.
* '''Marge Champion''': Actress, dancer, and choreographer for various Disney works.
* '''''Mario Gentilini''''': Helped publish and edit Mickey Mouse's ''Topolino'' magazine in Italy.
* Mark Andrews: Pixar employee who directed ''Brave'' after Brenda Chapman.
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* Mark Henn: Animator who started at Disney during the Disney Renaissance; co-supervising animator of [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ariel]] (with Creator/GlenKeane) and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] (with James Baxter), and solo supervising animator of Dr. Dawson, Olivia Flaversham and Basil (''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''); Oliver and Dodger (''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany''); Bernard and Bianca (''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''); Jasmine (''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''); young Simba ({{The Lion King|1994}}''), Hua Mulan and Hua Zhou (''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''); Grace and Pearl (''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange''); Ronno (''WesternAnimation/BambiII''); Tiana (''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''); and Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin (''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'')
* Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu: A major music player in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', providing the Hawaiian choir arrangements.
* Mark Isham: The composer's first major work was on ''Never Cry Wolf''; he also worked on ''Series/OnceUponATime''.
* Mark Mancina: The composer of the Disneynature logo music, and the scores to ''Tarzan'', ''Brother Bear'', and ''Moana''.
* Mark Mueller: The composer of the theme songs to ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''.
* Mark Nielsen: The producer of the Pixar/''Inside Out'' short ''Riley's First Date?''
* Mark Obenhaus: Senior producer of ''Good Morning America''; he had a phone interview during 9/11.
* Mark Watters: Music composer for the Mickey Mouse Mini Masterpiece ''Get A Horse!'', which opened ''Frozen''.
* Mark Zoradi: Longtime Disney executive who left the studio in 2009. He temporarily worked for [=DreamWorks=] Animation before moving on to helm the Cinemark movie theater chain.
* '''Marty Sklar''': A long-serving Imagineer and executive.
* '''''Marvin Davis''''': Master planner for Disneyland, later helped direct Disney films and television series.
* Marvin Miller: Narrated ''Sleeping Beauty''.
* '''Mary Anne Mang''': Public Relations Manager for Disneyland.
* '''''Mary Blair''''': The wife of Disney artist Lee Blair, her work first got Walt's attention during the South America tour that begat ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. Her unique, colorful designs can be seen on ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' and ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. Also designed the "It's a Small, Small World" ride.
* '''Mary Jones''': In charge of Disneyland's Community Relations and international relations.
* '''Masatomo Takahashi''': Helped establish Tokyo Disneyland.
* '''Matsuo Yokoyama''': Helped market Disney in Japan.
* Matt Ouimet: Former president of the Disney Cruise Line and Disneyland Resort.
* Matthew Jacobs: Provided the original story ideas for what became the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''.
* Matthew Wilder: The director of songs for ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.
* Meg Crofton: President of Disney Theme Park's U.S. and France operations.
* Meg Lefauve: One of the screenwriters for ''Inside Out.''
* Meg Whitman: Disney executive who now runs Hewlett-Packard, which provides the computers for Disney's theme parks and the technology for Katzenberg's [=DreamWorks=] Animation.
* Mel Leven: A major Disney composer; he wrote the famous TheVillainSucksSong "Cruella De Vil" in ''101 Dalmatians''.
* '''Melvin "Mel" Shaw (born Melvin Scwartzman)''': Titles designer for ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' and other films. He got started with ''Bambi'', but left to enter World War II, though he returned to Disney 32 years later. His final film was ''The Lion King''.
* Meredith Roberts: Senior vice president and general manager of Disneytoon Studios.
* Meredith Viera: The host and later executive producer of the syndicated version of Disney/ABC's ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'' until 2013. Her current talk show is produced by Disney's TV syndication department.
* Merrill De Maris: Disney comic strip writer who was also part of the writing team of ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.
* Michael Arndt: Screenwriter for ''Toy Story 3'' and ''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' who also contributed extra story material to ''Brave'' and ''Inside Out''.
* Michael Colglazier: The current president of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
* Michael Curry: Puppet designer who was contracted to build and design puppets for ''Theater/TheLionKing'' on Broadway and has built stuff for numerous Disney parades and shows since, such as Tapestry of Nations, Mickey's Jammin' Jungle Parade, and Ride/RiversOfLight.
* Michael Davies: The showrunner and executive producer of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for its first decade.
* Michael Eisner: 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]].
* Michael Gelman: A producer on ABC's ''Live With Regis''.
* Michael Graves: Architect who designed the Swan & Dolphin hotels in Disney World, along with Disney's corporate headquarters in Burbank. He died in 2015.
* Michael Johnson: Former executive of Buena Vista Home Video/Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo/Walt Disney Home Entertainment/Buena Vista Home Entertainment. He left the company in 2003 and moved on to the Herbalife supplement company.
* Michael Lynton: Past business executive at Disney Consumer Products and a major force behind the founding of the Disney Publishing Group.
* Michael Ovitz: The boss of the Creative Arts Agency and best friend of Eisner at the time Eisner chose to put him in Wells's President position over Jeffrey Katzenberg. Ovitz left the position the next year.
* Mike Gabriel: Major force behind ''The Rescuers Down Under'' and a regular animator and art director at Disney.
* Mike Golic: Co-host of ''Mike And Mike'' on ESPN Radio.
* Mike Greenberg: Major anchor at ESPN.
* Mike Mignola: The ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' creator lent his distinctive artistic technique to the Walt Disney CultClassic ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
* Mike "Moe" Merell: The supervising animator for the Leviathan in ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' and one of the animators for the computer-generated crowds in ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''.
* '''Milt Albright''': Accountant, designer, and manager for Disney parks.
* Milt Banta: One of the story writers for ''Sleeping Beauty''.
* Milt Gross: Helped storyboard for ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad''.

* Mychael and Jeff Danna: Composer brothers who scored Pixar's ''The Good Dinosaur''; Mychael also scored its opening act short ''WesternAnimation/SanjaysSuperTeam''.

* Nancy Adams: Sung the "Love" song during ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' and Maid Marian's walk through Sherwood Forest.
* Natalie Kalmus: The color director of the second half of the premiere hybrid Classic ''Film/TheReluctantDragon''.
* Nathan Greno: Disney Animation employee who co-directed ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''.
* '''''Neil Beckett''''': Legend in Merchandise.
* '''''Neil Gallagher''''': Imagineer, worked on the Enchanted Tiki Room ride, helped develop the Abraham Lincoln animatronic.
* Nicholas Stoller: One of the co-writers of ''The Muppets'' and ''Muppets Most Wanted''.
* Nicole Mitchell: One of the story writers for the short ''Feast''.
* Nicole Paradis Grindle: The producer of the Pixar short ''WesternAnimation/SanjaysSuperTeam''.
* Nik Raineri: Lead animator for Roger Rabbit on ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', animator Ursula from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', animator of Jafar from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and supervising animator of Wilbur from The Rescuers Down Under, Lumiere from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Meeko from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', Hades from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', and Kuzco from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''.
* Nina Jacobson: Script developer at Disney from 1998 to 2006.
* Nitin Chawla: Vice president of Playmation.
* Noni White: One of the screenwriters for ''Tarzan'' and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''.
* '''''Norman "Norm" Ferguson''''': One of Disney's most loved animators, known for his excellent personality animation, as well as his contributions to the character of Pluto and his subsequent short subject series. Noteworthy work of his includes the famous flypaper scene from "Playful Pluto", the Witch from ''Snow White'' and Honest John and Gideon from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''. Directing animator on ''Snow White'' and ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''.
* '''Norman Palmer''': Editor during Disney's Silver Age who was the co-recipient of the second Disney Legend award alongside Virginia Davis.
* Opetaia Foa'i: One of the songwriters for ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''.
* Oren Aviv: A past marketing chief of the studio.
* Oren C. Smith: Nike executive who is a board member at Disney.
* '''Orlando Ferrante''': Legend in Imagineering.
* Oskar Fischinger: An abstract animator who briefly joined Disney and did work on the "Tocata and Fugue in D Minor" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''.
* Osnat Shurer: Pixar short producer who transferred to Disney Animation and produced the 56th Disney Animated Classic, ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''.
* Otto Englander: Head of story direction on ''Dumbo''.

* Pam Coats: Producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.
* Pamela L. Travers: The author of the original ''Mary Poppins'' novel series, she was actually approached by Walt Disney very early on for [[Film/MaryPoppins adapting the premiere novel]], but resisted for decades until financial pressures got her to cave in. This led to the development of the movie, and while everyone else was impressed, it made an opposite impression on her because she HATED animation (the standing ovation the movie received did not help her feelings), and she barred Disney from adapting the rest of the book series, although this mandate may have been relaxed with a sequel being announced in 2015. Her dilemma with the movie and her life events leading to it and the original novels is detailed in ''Film/SavingMrBanks'', the first movie to feature an actor (Tom Hanks) playing Walt.
* Pamela Mann-Francis: Script supervisor on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.
* Pamela Ribon: One of the story writers for ''Moana''.
* Pat Ventura: One of the story developers for the Pomp & Circumstance number in ''Fantasia 2000''.
* Patricia Hicks: Associate producer on the Walt Disney Classic, ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', and the production manager on ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''.
* Patrick Deremer: Musician who composed the ''Disney Sing-Along Songs'' theme.
* Patrick Moran: Executive Vice President of ABC Studios.
* Patrick Osborne: The director of the Disney short ''Feast''.
* Patrick Pacheco: The writer of the ''Waking Sleeping Beauty'' documentary.
* Paul and Gaetan Brizzi: French twins who were two of the directors of ''Fantasia 2000''.
* Paul Ekman: Psychologist, emotion research expert, and founder of the Paul Ekman social group, he was a consultant for the Emotions of ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''.
* Paul Felix: Production designer for ''Lilo & Stitch''.
* Paul Lee: President of the ABC Entertainment Group until 2016.
* Paul Pressler: The former boss of The Disney Store, he was put in charge of Disneyland in 1996 to help with the construction of what became Disney's Californian Adventure as well as address the lack of parkgoers in recent years (the original idea was for a new Epcot called Westcot, but this was abandoned after Wells and Katzenberg's runs at the company ended). He wound up cutting maintenance and attractions, mostly focusing on shopping. He became boss of the entire theme park division in 2000, but his failed attempt to take this concept further and Californian Adventure hitting an instant DorkAge the minute it opened, along with problems with Eisner, convinced him to pull the plug on his Disney job and never look back; he joined The Gap, and Pressler was succeeded by Jay Rasulo and eventually Tom Staggs, who revitalized the parks, with Staggs becoming president in 2015. Paul Pressler's tenure and the results of it was one of the factors in Eisner leaving the company himself.
* Paul Rudish: Television animator who is the executive producer of the critically, popularly and Emmy/Annie acclaimed new series of ''[[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 Mickey Mouse]]'' cartoons.
* Paul Satterfield: One of the writers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''.
* Paul Smith: The creator of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' and one of the executive producers of the American version for its first decade. Also the name of a different man who was one of the music composers for ''Snow White''.

* '''''Paul Winkler''''': Helped establish Disney in France.
* Peabo Bryson: The male vocalist on the end-credits versions of the songs "WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast" and "[[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} A Whole New World"]], which he won Grammys for.
* Perce Pearce: Animator who was one of the sequence directors on Walt Disney's Signature Classic, ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs''.
* Pete Docter: One of the [=MVPs=] at Pixar, he's worked on a lot of their movies and is the man behind their 2015 hit ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''. He also co-directed ''Monsters. Inc'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', and is currently Pixar’s Chief Creative Officer.
* Peter Del Vecho: Producer of ''Frozen''.
* '''Peter Ellenshaw''': Major matte artist on Walt Disney's studio classics from 1949 to his retirement in 1979. Despite this, he would return to the industry briefly to assist his son Harrison on ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''.
* '''''Peter Jennings''''': A major personality at ABC until his death in 2005; his long on-air time during the aftermath of DistancedFromCurrentEvents/SeptemberEleventh and other contributions earned him a Disney Legend award posthumously.
* Peter Montgomery: The creator of the ''Mickey's Fun Songs'' video trilogy; these were folded into the main ''Disney Sing-Along Songs'' series.
* Peter S. Seaman: One of the two screenwriters for ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' and a movie called ''Trenchcoat''.
* Peter Schneider: Originally a co-worker of Menken and Ashman, he was brought in by Roy E. Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg to help head up animation. He got tangled up in an infamous fake memo that was sent to Katzenberg and then ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'', but was otherwise effective. He became the studio head in 2000, replacing Joe Roth, but his own budding problems with Eisner convinced him to resign.
* Peter Sohn: Pixar employee who directed ''The Good Dinosaur''. He also is a voice actor for the studio, voicing Emile in "Ratatouille".
* Peyton Reed: The eventual director of ''Film/AntMan1''.
* Phil Dike: One of the story developers for the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor number in ''Fantasia''.
* Phil Hawley: Former senior director of Walt Disney Productions.
* Phil Johnston: One of the story writers for ''Wreck-It Ralph''.
* Phil Lofaro: Associate producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.
* Phil Savenick: Writer and producer for the ''Disney Sing-Along Songs'' home video series.
* Philadelphia Orchestra: The orchestra led by Leopold Stokowski in ''Fantasia''. When the film hit video in 1991 under the Walt Disney Classics heading, the orchestra sued Disney for half the profits; the case was dismissed with a settlement in 1994.
* Philip Giffin: Composed the music for ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''.
* Philip [=LaZebnik=]: One of the screenwriters for ''Mulan''.
* Philippe Gas: The general manager of the upcoming Shanghai Disney Resort.
* '''''Pinto Colvig''''': Storyman at Disney, and the original voice of WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} and Pluto. He co-directed ''Mickey's Amateurs''.
* Pixote Hunt: Animator who was one of the directors of ''Fantasia 2000''.
* '''''Poul Brahe Pedersen''''': Helped publish Donald Duck in the Nordic countries.
* Pres Antonio Romanillos: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; one of the characters he animated is Shan-Yu, the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.
* Preston Blair: A animator for Disney, later famous for the animation he did for the girl from Tex Avery's "WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood".

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* Rachel Field: Children's novelist who wrote the English lyrics for the closing "Ave Maria" number of ''Fantasia''.
* Randy and Jason Sklar: Comedians who hosted the ''Series/CheapSeats'' show on ESPN Classic in the mid 2000's.
* Raj Murari: A co-senior vice president of group publishers at Disney Publishing Group.
* Ralph Eggleston: The production designer for ''Inside Out''.
* Ralph Grierson: Played the piano for the Rhapsody in Blue number in ''Fantasia 2000''.
* Ralph J. Guggenheim: Executive at Pixar.
* '''Ralph Kent''': Legend in Imagineering and attractions.
* Ram Bergman: Hollywood screenwriter who is writing ''Star Wars Episodes VIII & IX''.
* '''''Randy Bright''''': Vice president of development for shows and attractions at Disneyland.
* Randy Cartwright: Animator who has worked with Disney on-and-off; supervising animator of Chief and adult Copper in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', and the Magic Carpet in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''.
* Randy Fullmer: Producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', and artistic coordinator of ''The Hunchback Of Notre Dame'' and ''The Lion King''.
* Randy Haycock: Animator from the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Clayton (''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''), Kida (''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''), Naveen (''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''), Eeyore (''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011''), and young WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}.
* Randy Parker: Digital production manager of ''Brother Bear''.
* Randy Thornton: Producer of the Disneyland soundtrack.
* Ray Chew: The band leader on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC.
* '''Ray Watson''': Disney executive who is partially responsible for Michael Eisner coming to Disney.
* Raymond S. Persi: One of the story writers for the short ''Feast''.
* Raymond Singer: One of the screenwriters for ''Mulan''.
* Rebecca Cline: Director of the Walt Disney Archives.
* Regina Belle: Performed "A Whole New World" for the closing credits of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' with Peabo Bryson. This is the second song Belle recorded with Bryson; they previously did "Without You" for the infamous ''Film/LeonardPart6'' 5 years earlier.
* Regina Conroy: Disney Animation short film producer; one of her works is ''The Ballad Of Nessie''.
* '''Regis Philbin''': A major personality at ABC, he chaired the morning talk show ''Live with Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly'' and hosted the ABC version of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'', which temporarily got ABC out of the hole and ushered in a new generation of programming.
* Reggie Williams: Retired linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals and an ex-member of that city's council who founded Disney's Wide World of Sports in Disney World and then named Vice President of Disney Sports Attractions. He was forced to retire in 2007 when injuries he sustained while in the NFL began to come back.
* Renu Thomas: The Executive Vice President of media operations, engineering and IT at Disney/ABC.
* '''''Retta Scott''''': Disney's first woman animator to receive a screen credit, in ''Bambi''.
* Reuben Cannon & Associates: The U.S. casting directors for ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.
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* Ric Sluiter: Art director of ''Mulan''.
* Rich Franks: Disney executive who was sent out the door alongside Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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* Rich Ross: Succeeded Dick Cook as studio chief, he oversaw a few big-budget tentpoles, but a few too many tentpole bombings, which culminated in ''Film/JohnCarter'', got him fired and replaced by Alan Horn (the movie's failure also put Ross on the top of John Lasseter's "really deep shit list"); the failure of ''Film/TheLoneRanger'' added an extra nail to that coffin.
* Richard Creedon: One of the story writers for ''Snow White''.
* '''Richard Fleischer''': A director who helmed a multitude of Disney films, the most notable being ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea.'' He's the son of Fleischer studio founder Max Fleischer, who was a good rival of Disney's for the 1930's.
* Richard Hollander: The producer of the Pixar short ''Presto''.
* '''''Richard Irvine''''': Senior Imagineer who headed design and planning for Disneyland attractions and then became executive vice president and chief operations officer of Imagineering in 1967. He retired in 1973 and died three years later.
** Maggie Irvine: His daughter who joined WDI after him
** Kim Thomas/Kim Irvine: Daughter-in-law who is a current art director at WDI.
* Richard Loomis: Head of marketing for Disney Channels Worldwide until 2016.
* Richard Purdum: 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 thanks to AuthorExistenceFailure. Purdum would return to Disney and provide some supplementary animation for ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' a few years later.
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* Richard Roeper: A stretch, he's a writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, but he succeeded Gene Siskel as Roger Ebert's critic partner in the ''At The Movies'' program, which was distributed by Disney.
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* Rick Law: Artist who designed a multitude of covers for Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo. Currently a creative manager at Disney Publishing Worldwide.
* Rick Reinert: His animation firm helped make the fourth and final main ''Winnie The Pooh'' short, ''Winnie The Pooh And A Day For Eeyore'' (this short has a brand new cast and was made past ''The Many Adventures''' theatrical and VHS release, but is included in the Winnie The Pooh's Storybook Classics series that make up the individual shorts along with the Walt Disney Mini Classics line prior to that).
* Ricky Strauss: Marketing president at the Walt Disney Studios.
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* Rita Hsiao: One of the screenwriters for ''Mulan''.
* Rob Minkoff: Began his career in the Studios as an inbetweener on ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. He helped design the character of Basil in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' and Ursula in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''. He is associated with the character Roger Rabbit as the director of "Tummy Trouble" and "Roller Coaster Rabbit" and co-producer of "Trail Mix-up". He directed ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' with Roger Allers.
* Rob Renzetti: Supervising producer of ''Gravity Falls'' and will executive produce the ''Ducktales'' reboot.
* Robert A.M. Stern: The designer of several Disney World hotels, most notably the Yacht and Beach Club; these were Eisner's favorite hotels due to their location and design, and got Stern on the board of directors.
* Robert Cormack: A major art director in ''Fantasia'', dealing with the Toccata and Fugue and Nutcracker Suite numbers.
* Robert Crawford: Wrote the U.S. Air Force/United Nations jingle in ''The Rescuers''.
* Robert D. San Souci: Children's book author who provided the original concept for the Disney Animated Classic ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' and was a consultant on the film; he died from a head injury in 2014.
* '''''Robert Jani''''': Produced numerous Disneyland festivities and shows.
* Robert Kraft: A major record producer for Walt Disney Records.
* Robert L. Baird: One of the screenwriters for ''Big Hero 6''.
* Robert Langer: Vice president and CFO for Disney-ABC Television Group.
* Robert Matschullat: Board member at Disney.
* Robert S. Garber: An associate producer on ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.
* Robert Steinbrecher: One of the two production managers for Walt Disney Picture's first classic, ''Never Cry Wolf''.
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* Robert Ty Stanton: Art director for the Disney short ''John Henry''.
* Robert Watts: Lucasfilm producer who was one of the producers of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.
* Robert Zemeckis: The director of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' and the boss of ImageMovers Digital, which made the 2009 adaptation of ''[[WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol2009 A Christmas Carol]]''. Their next film, ''Mars Needs Moms'', however, tanked heavily and ended the partnership between Disney and Zemeckis prematurely.
* '''''Roberto de Leonardis''''': Helped translate various Disney films.
* Roberts Gannaway: The director and lead writer of ''WesternAnimation/PlanesFireAndRescue''.
* Rod Taylor: Narrated ''101 Dalmatians'' as dog Pongo.
* Roger Allers: Animator who co-directed ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' with Rob Minkoff.
* '''Roger Broggie''': The original Imagineer, Broggie helped make special effects and model trains prior to Disneyland's conception. Most notably, he and Wathel Rogers invented the audio-animatronic.
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* Roger Hector: Director of product development for Walt Disney Computer Software from 1989 to 1993.
* '''Rolly Crump''': Major Imagineer who designed a good chunk of Disneyland attractions and shops, including It's a Small World.
* Ron Clements: Assistant and animator on ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', ''WesternAnimation/PetesDragon1977'', ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. He, along with John Musker, directed ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''.
* '''Ron Dominguez''': Former vice president of Walt Disney Attractions.
* Ron Jones: The music composer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales}}''.
* '''Ron Logan''': The first president of the reborn Disney Theatrical Group, which was revived by Peter Schneider and Thomas Schumacher with Roy Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg supervising; their first play back was the stage adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. He is also responsible for producing a lot of live entertainment projects at the Disney Theme Parks, including Fantasmic!.
* Ron Meurin: Story developer for the Piano Concerto No. 2 number in ''Fantasia 2000''.
* Ron Schneider: Played the Dreamfinder at EPCOT's Journey Into Imagination.
* Ronald L. Iden: Senior vice president of global security at Disney.
* Ronnie del Carmen: Co-director and one of the story writers for ''Inside Out''.
* Ronnie Screwvala: Executive at UTV Software Communications.
* '''''Roone Arledge''''': President of ABC Sports from 1968 to 1986, president of ABC News from 1977 to 1998.
* Roy Conli: Producer of several Disney Animated Classics such as ''Big Hero 6''.
* '''''Roy Williams''''': Worked on a few Disney shorts before becoming the senior Mouseketeer on ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' for 4 seasons. Died in 1976.
* Ruben Aquino: Animator who worked on Ursula in ''The Little Mermaid'', he sadly got laid off in 2013 alongside Ranieri.
* Ruben Procopio: Clean-Up supervisor on ''Mulan''.
* Rune Brandt Bennicke: Major character designer on ''Brother Bear'. He animated Tug & Koda's mother in this film.
* Russ Edmonds: The supervising animator for a lot of characters from the 2D Disney Animated Classics; one of them is Phoebus from ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''.
* Russell Hall: Supervising animator on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.
* Russi Taylor: The voice of Minnie Mouse, and the wife of Mickey Mouse voice Wayne Allwine until his death in 2009.
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* Ruth Lambert: Casting director for ''Mulan'' and ''Tarzan''.
* '''Ruthie Tompson''': Scene planner and final checker for animation cels.
* Ryan Lissack: The Chief Technology Officer of Maker Studios.

* Saaschka Unseld: The director and writer of the Pixar short ''The Blue Umbrella''.
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* '''Salvatore "Tutti & Toots" Camarata''': The man who founded Disneyland Records and supervised several recordings of classic Disney soundtracks.
* Sam Armstrong: Storyman and background artist from 1934 to 1941, director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''.
* '''Sam [=McKim=]''': Sketched various Disneyland rides and maps.
* Sammy Fain: Wrote the Oscar-nominated "Someone's Waiting For You" from ''The Rescuers''.
* Sanford "Sandy" Litvack: A former Disney executive who was a competitor to Jeffrey Katzenberg and then Michael Ovitz for the president's position at Disney. He earned an acting chief operation officer job after Ovitz's acrimonious departure and became a co-vice chairman in 1999, but he was forced out of the company in 2000.
* Sanjay Patel: The director of the Pixar short ''WesternAnimation/SanjaysSuperTeam'', which came from Patel's childhood.

* Scot Stafford: Composed the music for Pixar's short ''Presto''.
* Sean Bailey: The current president of production at Walt Disney Pictures.
* Sean [=McGrath=]: The VFX coordinator of Marvel films since Disney took over the company, and for other Disney properties.
* Shane Morris: One of the writers of ''Frozen''.
* Shelby Flint: Sung the songs in ''The Rescuers''.
* Shelley Miles: Former VP/GM of Disney Software/Disney Music.
* Sheryl Sandberg: Current board member at Disney.
* Shinji Hashimoto: The man who came up with the original concept for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''.
* Shirley Pierce: Screenwriter who dealt with the Disney short ''John Henry''.
* Sid Bass: Became the majority stockholder of Disney in the 80's and was directly responsible for Eisner's rise. The 9/11 [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents/SeptemberEleventh attacks]] forced him to sell out.
* Siddharth Roy Kapur: The CEO of Disney subsidiary UTV Software Communications.
* Simon Kinberg: This producer is normally involved with Fox and their separate Marvel universe which, apart from ''Film/Deadpool2016'', Disney/Marvel proper is not fond of, but he IS involved with Disney as a major player in the [[Film/{{Cinderella2015}} remake]] of Walt Disney's Classic ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', as well as being a creative consultant on ''The Force Awakens'' and being an executive producer of ''Star Wars Rebels''.
* Simon Wells: Supervising animator on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' and the director of ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms''.
* Skarpi Hedinsson: The chief technology officer at Disney/ABC Television.
* Stan Kinsey: Executive of technology during the early 80's who initially wanted to move into animation with Pixar right at 1984, but clashed with Jeffrey Katzenberg over the subject. Kinsey resigned, but Katzenberg backpedaled and allowed the CAPS system into future Disney productions anyway, with Bob Iger purchasing Pixar in the end.
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* Stan Spohn: One of the background painters for ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' in ''Fantasia''.
* Stanley Gold: Friend of Roy E. Disney and Disney executive who coordinated the "Save Disney" campaigns with him.
* Stephane Sainte-Foi: Animator, beginning as part of the team who animated Ariel in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid}}''; supervising animator of Nani Pelekai in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''.
* Stephen A. Rotter: Award winner who was one of the editors on ''Enchanted''.
* Stephen Anderson: Director of ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' and story supervisor of ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''.
* Stephen "Steve" Bollenbach: A former executive who started with serving ice cream at Disneyland and in the 80's and early 90's worked for Marriott, Holiday Inn and Creator/DonaldTrump before working at Disney for a year and helping with the ABC takeover. He left the next year and joined Hilton. Bollenbach died in 2016.
* Stephen Scott: Art director on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.
* Steve Bornstein: Ex-CEO of ESPN, now at Creator/{{Activision}}.
* Steve Burke: Joined Disney in 1992 and helped with the development of The Disney Store prior to the Euro Disney project. After getting put on ABC, he resigned and moved to the Comcast cable company, which attempted to take over the Walt Disney Company in 2004 but failed, instead merging with Universal; Burke took over the doddering NBC in 2011 and is their current CEO.
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* Steve Levitan: The co-creator of one of ABC's modern classics, ''Series/ModernFamily''.
* Steve [=McBeth=]: Former president of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios[=/=]Walt Disney Computer Software
* Steve Nelson: Co-composer of the theme music for ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''.
* Steve Pilcher: Production designer on ''Finding Dory''.
* Steve Rucker: Provided additional music for the first season of ''Ducktales'' and wrote music for Disney's ''Gummi Bears''.
* Steve Starkey: Assistant producer on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.
* Steve Whitmre: The puppeteer of Kermit the Frog, Beaker, Statler and others in the Muppet films done by Disney.
* Steven Chorney: Designed the poster for ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' amongst other Disney designs.
* Steven Keller: Disney animation employee; one of his jobs was producing the Walt Disney Mini Classic ''John Henry''.
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* Steven Tyler: The frontman for the legendary rock/metal band Aerosmith, whose soundtracks are used by Disney in Disney World and on Disney Infinity and ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''.
* Stevie Wermers: Animator at Disney who worked on a few features and directed the Goofy short ''How To Hook Up Your Home Theater''.

* Stuart "Stu" Bloomberg: Major force at ABC during the late 90's, but this was when the network was slumping. In 2001, he got hailed by a San Francisco columnist as the [[MedalOfDishonor "worst executive of the year"]] when ''Millionaire's'' strength started to really ebb and sent ABC back into the hole, prompting Disney to fire him only days after he signed an expensive contract with them (which they had to eat). ABC's severe slump became one of the factors in Eisner following Bloomberg out the door a few years later.
* Stuart Buchanan: Disney animation staff member who voiced the Huntsman in ''Snow White'', as well as Goofy on the Mickey Mouse radio show.
* Sue Bea Montgomery: Manager of post production on ''The Emperor's New Groove'' and ''Lilo & Stitch''.
* Susan Arnold: Board member at Disney.
* Susan Harris: The creator of Disney/Touchstone's classic show ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' starring Creator/BettyWhite, Creator/BeaArthur and Creator/EstelleGetty.
* Susan [=McKinsey=] Goldberg: Art director for the Rhapsody in Blue number in ''Fantasia 2000''.
* Susan O'Day: Chief Information Officer of Disney.

* T. Daniel Hofstedt: Animator who was part of the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Ben and Lon in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', Mr. Arrow in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', and The Emperor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.
* Tab Murphy: Writer who wrote several Disney Renaissance films such as ''The Hunchback Of Notre Dame''.
* Tad Stones: Creator of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' and ShowRunner on shows like ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' series and ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries''. Went on to direct two animated ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' DTV movies.
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* Tania Steele: Former vice president and spokesperson of Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo.
* Ted Berman: One of the co-directors of ''The Black Cauldron''. He had retired from Disney prior to the 1984 management shift, and the film's failure [[CreatorKiller ensured he would stay retired]].
* Ted Sears: A key member of Walt's team who was involved with writing.
* Teddy Newton: A key member of Pixar who directed their Mini Classic ''Day And Night''.
* Terry Gilkyson: Composer of several songs on projects during Walt's life and Reithermann's tenure.
* Terry Naughton: One of the story developers for the Pomp & Circumstance number in ''Fantasia 2000''.
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* Theodore Anthony Lee Ty: Animated Captain Gantu in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''.
* Thom Enriquez: Directing animator for ''The Prince And The Pauper''.
* Thom Sharp: Co-composer of the theme music for ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''.
* Thomas Cardone: Co-art director on ''The Emperor's New Groove''.
* '''Thomas Murphy''': Former boss of ABC who joined the Disney board of directors when Disney purchased ABC. He left the company at some point.
* Thomas Schumacher: Musical director at Disney Animation. He transferred to their Broadway productions in the 2000's, after serving as producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', executive producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King}}'', and President of Walt Disney Animation.
* Thornton "T.Hee" Hee: Worked for Disney as a caricaturist, stylist, director, and story artist. He co-directed the "Dance of the Hours" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', directed the Honest John and Gideon sequence in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', and worked on story in ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic''.

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* Tim Hodge: Animator during the Disney Renaissance.
* Tim Mertens: Editor of ''Wreck-It Ralph''.
* Toby Bluth: The late brother of Don Bluth, who worked on a handful of Disney Theme Park attractions and a few Disneytoon productions such as ''Mickey, Donald & Goofy: The Three Musketeers''.
* Todd Lieberman: Co-worker of David Hoberman who co-produced ''Film/TheMuppets'' with him.
* Tom Adair: Composed the songs for ''Sleeping Beauty''.
* Tom Bancroft: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Mushu]].
* Tom Bergeron: The current host of ABC's ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' and ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''.
* Tom Brevoort: Executive editor and senior vice president of publishing at Marvel Worldwide.
* Tom Codrick: One of the art directors on ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' from ''Fantasia''.
* Tom Cohen: VP of production at Marvel.
* Tom Fitzgerald: Veteran Imagineer who now handles creative direction at Epcot. '''He''' is the one who wrote the iconic "If you can dream it, you can do it" line, which was originally used in the 1980's for Horizons, long after Walt had died.
* Tom Gately: Lead animator of Tanana in ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''.
* Tom [=MacDougall=]: The music supervisor for ''Wreck-It Ralph'' and the music production manager on ''Tarzan''.
* '''Tom Murphy''': Vice president of Capital Cities/ABC Inc., oversaw the company's growth.
* '''Tom Nabbe''': Played Tom Sawyer as a boy on Tom Sawyer Island, later managed other attractions.
* Tom Staggs: Was hired by Disney in 1990, he became the Chief Financial Officer in the mid 2000's, before swapping his job for the theme park side of things; after a long time, he took the President and Chief Operating Officer position after Iger left it vacant following Eisner's ouster (Iger had taken the position originally after Frank Wells died and after Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Ovitz couldn't claim it.) He sadly lasted just over a year before '''he''' found himself unable to hold onto the position and subsequently resigned.
* Tom Wilhite: Was the studio head until the 1984 management shift. He had to give up his position to Jeffrey Katzenberg.
* Tom Wolber: The president of Disneyland Paris, aka, Euro Disney.
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* Tony Bancroft: Animator during the Disney Renaissance (supervising animator of [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Pumbaa]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kronk]]) and twin brother of Tom Bancroft; One of the co-directors of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.
* '''Tony Baxter''': Former senior vice president of Disney Imagineering, which involved him overseeing construction of Ride/JourneyIntoImagination, Ride/BigThunderMountainRailroad, Ride/StarTours, Splash Mountain, The Ride/IndianaJonesAdventure, and Disneyland Paris among other projects.
* Tony Fucile: The supervising animator for [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Esmeralda]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Mufasa]].
* Tony Gilroy: Was brought in by Disney to help rewrite the final screenplay of ''Rogue One'' during the film's reshoots.
* Tony L. Marino: Storywriter for Disney; one of his works is ''WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol''.
* Tony Smeed: Co-head of animation on ''Zootopia''.
* Tony Stanley: Lead animator of Rutt the moose in ''Brother Bear''.
* Tony To: President of production and development at Lucasfilm.
* '''Toshio Kagami''': CEO of Tokyo Disney Resort.
* Tracy Balthazor-Flynn: The producer of Disneytoon's classic ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''.
* '''Tyrus Wong''': Chinese-born artist who served as main production designer (background department) of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''.

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** '''Don Iwerks''': Ub's son, he pushed for further technology and a 360-degree camera. He left the company in 1985 after 35 years to start Iwerks entertainment.
*** Leslie Iwerks: Don's daughter and Ub's granddaughter who is a major documentary director for Disney; her filmography includes films like ''Film/ThePixarStory''
* Ugo D'Orsi: One of the studio's first effects animators, best known for handling the water effects on "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''.
* Vance Gerry: One of the great Disney artists, working on a number of Disney Animated Classics.
* '''''Van France''''': Founder of the Disney University training program.
* '''''Vesey Walker''''': Bandmaster of the Disneyland Band.
* Vicki Dummer: Executive vice president of Times Square Studios, which manages ABC's daytime shows except for ''Live with Kelly (Ripa)''.
* Victoria Strouse: One of the story writers for ''Finding Dory''.
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* '''Virginia Davis''': Child actress who tried out for roles in ''Snow White'' and ''Pinocchio'', but didn't make the cut. She did have a stint in Disney's Ink and Paint division, which won her the second Disney Legend award in 1988 alongside Norman Palmer.

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* '''Wally Boag''': Disneyland performer known for his roles in the Golden Horseshoe Revue and Ride/TheEnchantedTikiRoom who was attached to the character of Tigger in ''Winnie The Pooh and the Blustery Day'', but got replaced by Paul Winchell. Was also something of a mentor to comedian Creator/SteveMartin.
* '''''Wally Feignoux''''': Helped market Disney in France.
* Walt Kelly: While most known for his ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}'' newspaper comics, he got his start working at Disney.
* Walt Stanchfield: Was part of Disney's masterclasses for years. Much of his advice is included in the Disney book series "Drawn to Life".
* Walter Afanasieff: Recording arranger who was part of the production of the signature songs that Peabo Bryson sung for ''Beauty And The Beast'' and ''Aladdin''.
* '''Walt Peregoy''': Color and background artist on a handful of Disney projects (e.g. ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'').
* Walter Sheets: Provided orchestrations for ''Robin Hood'' and ''The Love Bug'', among others.
* Warren Spector: The boss of Junction Point Studios and the man behind the ''Epic Mickey'' games; the second one, sadly, got Junction Point shut down and led to Spector being fired.
* Wathel Rogers: Co-created the Audio Animatronic with Roger Broggie.
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* Webb Smith: Storyman, he is credited with coming up with the idea of storyboards.

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* '''''Wilfred Jackson''''': Animator for several Disney features, including ''Lady And The Tramp''.
* Will Finn: Supervising animator for Cogsworth on ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Iago on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and Laverne on ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange''.
* '''''William Cottrell''''': Animator who was one of the sequence directors on Walt Disney's Signature Classic, ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs'', also of the screenwriters for ''The Reluctant Dragon''.
* '''''William Everett "Joe" Potter''''': The man built much of the underground infrastructure for Walt Disney World.
* '''''William "Bill" Garity''''': Inventor and technician who created the multiplane camera and the stereo system "Fantasound" at Disney.
* William Reeves: One of the original members of Pixar who produced ''Luxo Jr.'' alongside Lasseter and assisted with their films up to ''Ratatouille''.
* '''William Sullivan''': Operations supervisor at Disneyland, later performed supervisory work for Walt Disney World.
* Wink Martindale: Game show host who helmed ''Series/{{Debt}}'', which was produced by Disney's Buena Vista TV unit.
* '''''Winston Hibler''''': Story supervisor for ''Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day'' and the narrator on several Disney movies such as the ''True-Life Adventures''.

* '''Xavier "X" Atencio''': Inbetweener and assistant animator on ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. He also wrote the scripts for the original ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' and ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' attractions, as well as writing ''Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a Pirate's Life for Me'' and ''Grim Grinning Ghosts''.
* '''''Yale Gracey''''': Writer, imagineer, and layout artist for several Disney films and theme park attractions
* Yefim Bronfman: Played the piano for the Piano Concerto No. 2 number in ''Fantasia 2000''.
* Ynon Kreiz: Co-chairman and CEO of Maker Studios.
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* Yoshimichi Tamura: The supervising animator for Helga Sinclair in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
* Zenia B. Mucha: Executive vice president and chief communications officer at Disney.
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* Al Eugster: A former Fleischer veteran who migrated to Disney and specialized in animating the DonaldDuck cartoons. He eventually returned to the Fleischer studio in 1940.

* '''Creator/CarlBarks''': Started as an inbetweener and storyman, but later went on to work of his beloved DonaldDuck comic books, as well as create Scrooge [=McDuck=] and the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse.

* Dick Lundy: A very skilled animator and director, created the character of DonaldDuck and directed several of his shorts. He would later go on work at MGM's cartoon department on the ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'' cartoons, and after that went to Creator/WalterLantz's studio to work on their WesternAnimation/AndyPanda, Musical Miniatures and WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker short subjects. He would contribute animation to Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' and several Creator/HannaBarbera projects later on.

* Jack King: Animator and sequence director on such films as ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad''. Prolific director of the DonaldDuck cartoons; was THE Duck Director until Jack Hannah took over completely.

* Annie Guenther: Animator who reportedly inserted a shot of a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar bare-chested woman]] in a flying scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''; this shot was edited when it was discovered on the [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection]] VHS version of the film.

* '''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}} and [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Lilo]]. His most recent work was supervising the animation for Tigger in ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011''. Currently, he deals with some independent short film animation and maintains his own [[http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/ blog]].

* '''Creator/GlenKeane''': Began his career as an animator on ''The Rescuers''. He animated the fight scene with the bear in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', and was directing animator on Ariel in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', Marahute in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', Beast in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' and WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}. Was the initial director and later executive producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. He left Disney in 2012 after working on ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'' to set up his own studio.

* Glen Slater: Lyricist who worked with Alan Menken on a few Disney movies, the most notable being ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''.

* Irene Mecchi: A major screenwriter who has worked often with Disney. She's one of the screenwriters for ''The Lion King''.

* Mark Henn: Animated Mickey Mouse in ''Mickey's Christmas Carol'' and worked on Oliver and the Artful Dodger in ''Oliver & Company.'' In 1989 he moved to Florida to help establish the feature animation studio there. He animated Ariel in ''The Little Mermaid'', Belle in ''Beauty and the Beast'', and young Simba in ''The Lion King''

* Randy Cartwright: Animator who has worked with Disney on-and-off.
* Randy Fullmer: Producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' and artistic coordinator of ''The Hunchback Of Notre Dame''..
* Randy Haycock: Animator from the Disney Renaissance; he animated Clayton, the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''.

* '''Al Dempster''': Animator who worked with Walt during the Golden Years.

* Aaron Blaise: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Rajah in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Yao and the Ancestors in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}, and young Nala in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' . Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''.

* Aaron Blaise: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Rajah in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Yao and the Ancestors in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}, and young Nala in ''WesternAnimation/{{TheLionKing|1994}}'' . Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''.

* Aaron Blaise: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Rajah in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Yao and the Ancestors in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}, and young Nala in . Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''.

* Aaron Blaise: Animator during the Disney Renaissance, one of the characters he animated is Yao from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''.

* Stephane Sainte-Foi: Major Disney animator; supervising animator of Nani Pelekai in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''.

* Steve Whitmere: The voice and puppeteer of Kermit the Frog, Beaker, Statler and others in the Muppet films done by Disney.

* Music/{{Sting}}: Member of The Police who was contracted by Disney to compose music for an animated classic called ''Empire of the Sun''. When this film hit troubled waters and prompted Michael Eisner to threaten a shutdown to the film's directors' faces, it got one of the most noteworthy [[{{Retool}} retoolings]] in Disney's history, sending a good chunk of its crew down the valley to other projects and dropping almost all of Sting's work except for two songs, though he remained part of what became the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''.

* T. Daniel Hofstedt: Animator who was part of the Disney Renaissance; one of the characters he animated was The Emperor, the BigGood of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.

* Kevin Lima: Directed ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' and ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', along with a few Disneytoon movies such as ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''.

* Kirk Wise: Received his first feature-directing credit on the Academy Award-winning ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. and in 1996 re-teamed with Don Hahn and Gary Trousdale on ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', and has contributed to the following films, ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' and ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.

* Larry Morey: Animator who was one of the sequence directors on Walt Disney's Signature Classic, ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs'' and later was one of the music directors for ''The Reluctant Dragon''.

* Creator/LeonardMaltin: Film historian who has talked a lot about Disney and Star Wars, and hosts the ''Treasures From The Disney Vault'' specials on Turner Classic Movies with Ben Mankiewicz, and then solo after a few blocks. He's also the creator of the Walt Disney Treasures [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo DVD video series]] prior to that.

* '''Linda Larkin''': The voice of Jasmine from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' ever since that franchise started.

* Lisa Keene: Animator involved with the Disney Renaissance.

* Mark Mancina: The composer of the Disneynature logo jingle and the music to ''Tarzan'' and ''Moana'', along with a handful of songs for Disney related to Lebo M and Phil Collins.

* Tom Bancroft: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; one of the characters he animated is Mushu from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.

* Shane Morris: One of the writers of the Disney Classic ''Frozen''.

* Stephane Sainte-Foi: Major Disney animator; animated big sister Nani Pelekai in ''Lilo & Stitch''.

* Stephen Anderson: Director of ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' and story supervisor of ''Brother Bear''.

* Tad Stones: Creator of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' and ShowRunner on shows like ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' series and ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheSeries''. Went on to direct two animated ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' DTV movies.

* Creator/TaikaWaititi: Director of ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.

* Theodore Anthony Lee Ty: Animated Captain Gantu, the InspectorJavert, primary BigBad and FinalBoss in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''.

* Thomas Schumacher: Musical director at Disney Animation. He transferred to their Broadway productions in the 2000's.
* Thornton "T.Hee" Hee: Worked for Disney as a caricaturist, stylist, director, and storyman. He co-directed the "Dance of the Hours" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', directed the Honest John and Gideon sequence in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', and worked on story in ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic''.

* Tom Gately: Lead animator of Tanana in ''Brother Bear''.

* Tony Bancroft: Animator during the Disney Renaissance and twin brother of Tom Bancroft; One of the co-directors of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.

* Tony Fucile: The supervising animator for Esmeralda in ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.

* '''Tyrus Wong''': Chinese painter who did the backgrounds for ''Bambi''.

* '''''Creator/UbIwerks''''': He basically co-created MickeyMouse, Nuff Said.

* '''''[[Creator/BillTytla Vladimir "Bill" Tytla]]''''': One of Disney's most skilled animators, doing the animation for Grumpy in ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', Chernabog in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', and Stromboli in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''. Left Disney in the early 40's to work at other studios like Creator/FamousStudios and Creator/{{Terrytoons}} after he became part of the infamous Disney strike, and he regretted never working with Disney again for the rest of his life.

* '''Walter Peregoy''': Color and background artist on a handful of Disney projects.

* Will Finn: Supervising animator for Cogsworth on ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Iago on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and Laverne on ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. Co-director on ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange''.

* '''Wally Boag''': Disneyland performer who was attached to the character of Tigger in ''Winnie The Pooh and the Blustery Day'', but got replaced by Paul Winchell.

* Jeffrey Katzenberg: 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/Fantasia 2000'' 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.