# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-fox
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:03:10.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-fox"
name: "Brian Fox"
slug: "brian-fox"
description: "Brian Jhan Fox is an American computer programmer and free software advocate. He is the original author of the GNU Bash shell, which he announced as a beta in June 1989. He continued as the primary maintainer of Bash until at least early 1993. Fox also built the first interactive online banking software in the U.S. for Wells Fargo in 1995, and he created an open source election system in 2008. Fox has co-founded several technology start-ups including Orchid Labs, a provider of anonymized internet marketplaces."
tagline: "American computer programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BrianJFox.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.51440266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/brianjfox"
    handle:    "brianjfox"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://opuslogica.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%83%E8%90%8A%E6%81%A9%C2%B7%E7%A6%8F%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF"
    title: "布萊恩·福克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "براين فوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "براين فوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox"
    title: "Brian Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(programmer)"
    title: "Brian Fox (programmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(programador)"
    title: "Brian Fox (programador)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ブライアン・フォックス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B8%8C%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%EC%96%B8_%ED%8F%AD%EC%8A%A4_(%ED%94%84%EB%A1%9C%EA%B7%B8%EB%9E%98%EB%A8%B8)"
    title: "브라이언 폭스 (프로그래머)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox"
    title: "Brian Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox"
    title: "Brian Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Фокс, Брайан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox"
    title: "Brian Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2924892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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