From the file 'README' in the zlib-1.2.5 distribution:

Acknowledgments:

  The deflate format used by zlib was defined by Phil Katz.  The deflate and
  zlib specifications were written by L.  Peter Deutsch.  Thanks to all the
  people who reported problems and suggested various improvements in zlib; they
  are too numerous to cite here.

Copyright notice:

 (C) 1995-2010 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

  This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
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  Jean-loup Gailly        Mark Adler
  jloup@gzip.org          madler@alumni.caltech.edu

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