I actually wrote a long (somewhere ~15 pages) paper on him in the style of the CACM for an intro CS class. It turns out I've worked on a bunch of his projects (FFmpeg, QEMU) so I thought finding out more about him would be really interesting. It also includes a short interview. If anyone's interested I can post it.
Fair warning: I remember there were still some spelling and grammatical errors in the final draft. The writing style is also a little fractured because I co-wrote it with my roommate. The interview is cited but not included raw. I'll see if I can find it in my email.
"It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
This is exactly the same issue I had with the article about Foxconn, specifically the OP extracting a single sentence from a multi-page article and pasting it here without a shred of commentary. I can't stand copy-paste without any additional information or opinion being shared. It defeats the purpose of a forum.
p.s. I was downmodded at least -9 when I posted a similar reply to yours.
A personal hero for me as well. In addition to the projects listed in the wikipedia article, I'd like to mention TinyGL (http://bellard.org/TinyGL/), which was really useful for OpenGL on BeOS/BeBox (much faster than Mesa), and qemacs (http://bellard.org/qemacs/) for editing really large text files.
For me, Fabrice remains the author of LZEXE [1], a tool that I found technically amazing at the time, very useful to meet the "64kb intro limit" back in those days.
Edit: PDF: http://commentout.net/media/fabrice.pdf
Fair warning: I remember there were still some spelling and grammatical errors in the final draft. The writing style is also a little fractured because I co-wrote it with my roommate. The interview is cited but not included raw. I'll see if I can find it in my email.