# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-mako-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:40:08.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-mako-hill"
name: "Benjamin Mako Hill"
slug: "benjamin-mako-hill"
description: "Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist, hacker, author, and professor. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the co-author of three technical manuals on the subject, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, and The Official Ubuntu Book."
tagline: "Debian hacker, intellectual property researcher, activist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_Mako_Hill_portrait_at_Wikimania_2025_WikiPortraits_Studio_by_Pedro_J_Pacheco-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1980-12-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://mako.cc/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump