Basic Use of WP_User_Query

user_query.php

<?php


// prepare arguments
$args  = array(
	'orderby' => 'display_name',  // Order by display name
	'exclude' => array( 2, 5, ),  // Remove the two main admins
);

// Create the WP_User_Query object
$author_query = new WP_User_Query( $args );

// Get the results
$authors = $author_query->get_results();

// Output results
foreach( $authors as $author ):

	$pattern = '<%1$s class="%2$s">%3$s</%1$s>';
	echo '<div class="author author-' . $author->ID . ' author-' . $author->user_nicename . '">';
		printf( $pattern, 'div', 'author-gravatar', '<a href="' . get_author_posts_url( $author->ID ) . '">' . get_avatar( $author->user_email, 96, null, $author->display_name ) . '</a>' );
		printf( $pattern, 'h3', 'author-name', '<a href="' . get_author_posts_url( $author->ID ) . '">' . $author->display_name . '</a>' );
		printf( $pattern, 'div', 'author-description', get_the_author_meta( 'user_description', $author->ID ) );
	echo '</div>';
	
endforeach;