# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-swartz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:54:30.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-swartz"
name: "Benjamin Swartz"
slug: "benjamin-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 software engineer and activist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Aaron_Swartz_in_2011.jpg/330px-Aaron_Swartz_in_2011.jpg"
gender: "male"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           21.3
  momentum:             25
  historical:           1.533585333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BenSw"
    title: "BenSw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130226784"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations