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* Brian Kernighan, of K&R and K&P fame, the ‘K’ in awk, and much more; uses sam
* Doug McIlroy?, inventor of UNIX pipes, uses sam
* Tom Duff (of Duff’s Device and Star Wars' Death Star fame), uses sam
* Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++, uses sam
* Dennis Ritchie, creator of UNIX, used ed and ACME
* Russ Cox, worked on Plan 9 and golang, uses ACME
* RobPike, creator of jim, sam, and ACME, uses ACME (obviously)

Added: 11a19,20

: sam users taken from http://sam.cat-v.org/
: ACME users taken from http://acme.cat-v.org/

These are folks you may have heard of...

SteveGibson uses Brief (apparently in a Virtual DosBox?) (reference here: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-200.htm )
RichardStallman uses GnuEmacs (well, he *wrote* it...)
Ken Thompson, creator of Unix, uses sam
Linus Torvalds uses MicroEmacs
JamieZawinski, famous Mozilla programmer, uses XEmacs
Donald Knuth uses GnuEmacs
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia?, uses WordPad

: If available, please include sources for the above references.

How about the character in these movies?

Trinity in "The Matrix"
kids in "Wargames"
kids in "Hackers"
Guy in "Swordfish"

Any luck?