# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-cox
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:24:44.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-cox"
name: "Alan Cox"
slug: "alan-cox"
description: "Alan Cox is a British computer programmer who has been a key figure in the development of Linux. He maintained the 2.2 branch of the Linux kernel and was heavily involved in its development, an association that dates back to 1991. He lives in Swansea, Wales, where he lived with his wife Telsa Gwynne, who died in 2015, and now lives with author Tara Neale, whom he married in 2020. He graduated with a BSc in Computer Science from Swansea University in 1991 and received an MBA from the same university in 2005."
tagline: "British computer programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Cox_at_FOSS_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1968-07-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.86813186813187
  historical:           21.91958666666667
  currentAttention:     65.93406593406593
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 103
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1157865"
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    title: "Кокс, Алан"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump