Markus Persson

Markus Alexej "Notch" Persson is a Swedish computer programmer. He is most known for creating Minecraft and Scrolls.

Markus Persson was born June 1, 1979 in Ystad, Sweden to a Finnish mother and a Swedish father. They lived in Ystad until Markus was 7 and then the family moved to Denmark. Notch started programming on his dad's Commodore 128 computer and had made his first game at age eight.