# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aaron-swartz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:03:45.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aaron-swartz"
name: "Aaron Swartz"
slug: "aaron-swartz"
description: "Aaron Hillel Swartz, also known as AaronSw, was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. As a programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons, an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses; and the Python website framework web.py. Swartz helped define the syntax of the lightweight markup language format Markdown, and was a co-owner of the social news aggregation website Reddit and contributed to its development until he left the company in 2007. He is often credited as a martyr and a prodigy, and much of his work focused on civic awareness and progressive activism."
tagline: "American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aaron_Swartz_2_at_Boston_Wikipedia_Meetup%2C_2009-08-18.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1986-11-08"
deathDate: "2013-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           71.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.871532
  currentAttention:     5.2
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  247
  category: 14
totalFollowers: 2437
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/aaronsw"
    handle:    "aaronsw"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2290901/"
    handle:    "nm2290901"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.aaronsw.com"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/aaronsw"
    handle:    "aaronsw"
    followers: 2437
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aaron Swartz"
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    title: "એરન સ્વાર્ટઝ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill