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No one person. It evolved over thousands of years from many sources. Look under ALPHABET in the Brittanica or any other good encyclopedia for a full history.

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There is no such thing as a purely "US" English alphabet, other than perhaps the US pronunciation of the last letter, Z, zed. The present English alphabet has been in use since Shakespeare's time (there were 3 letters used in Old English which survived to around Shakespeare's time, in some cases dropped when printing presses were introduced, and the source of the incorrect "Ye" word ).

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The modern English alphabet is based on the Latin/Roman alphabet, which in turn was developed from western Greek called Cumaean, by the Romans. The English Alphabet was adapted by early English monks.

This traces a lineage through Phoenician, Proto-Canaanite and Proto-Sinaitic back to Egyptian hieroglyphics, which were developed by the earliest peoples in Egypt, probably with influence by Cuneiform (the oldest written language).

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The first phonetic writing system was invented by the Phoenicians, sometime prior to 1050 BCE, but this system was not a pure alphabet because it didn't include symbols for vowels.
The first pure alphabet was invented by the Greeks around the 8th century BCE.

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Benjamin Franklin created an early phonetic alphabet (1779) but no one liked it so the mission aborted but now it is being used over the phone or to communicate.

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Nobody. English started using the Latin alphabet around the 8th Century.

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Early English-speaking monks adapted the Latin alphabet for English use.

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Early monks adapted the Latin alphabet for use in English around the 8th Century.

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The Phoenicians.

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