# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bram-moolenaar
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:25:10.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bram-moolenaar"
name: "Bram Moolenaar"
slug: "bram-moolenaar"
description: "Bram Moolenaar was a Dutch software engineer and activist who was the creator, maintainer, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim, a vi-derivative text editor. He advocated for ICCF Holland, a non-governmental organization supporting AIDS victims in Uganda, and used the popularity of Vim to encourage donations."
tagline: "Dutch programmer (1961–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bram_Moolenaar_in_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1961"
deathDate: "2023-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.79
  momentum:             1.343938562808557
  historical:           19.81556266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 129
platforms:
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    handle:    "bram-moolenaar-56b5a55"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.moolenaar.net"
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    title: "Bram Moolenaar"
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    title: "Моленар, Брам"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump