Mako was created by Michael Bayer.

Major contributing authors include:

- Michael Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>
- Geoffrey T. Dairiki <dairiki@dairiki.org>
- Philip Jenvey <pjenvey@underboss.org>
- David Peckam
- Armin Ronacher
- Ben Bangert <ben@groovie.org>