Mark Shuttleworth
первый африканский космонавт.
наши возили его на МКС пару лет назад.

А вот про происхождение названия:
"I'm often surprised that a company that's been around on the internet this long and with this high a profile gets so misspelt.

I never met Mark Shuttleworth but was always sure he was a spot-on bloke. (Can you imagine e-mailing the CEO of Verisign and actually getting a personal reply? That's how it used to be back in the 90's when Thawte was a close number 2 to Verisign worldwide and Mark was running it.)

But to get back to my point, I was curious myself and a few years ago asked Mark why chose the word "Thawte." He told me he left university and was looking for a job, wondered what he had to offer. Conclusion he came up with was that all he had was his "thought"... voila the name for his new company.

Wish I could have done something like that instead of just being a wage slob :( "