# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-paul
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:31:25.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-paul"
name: "Brian Paul"
slug: "brian-paul"
description: "Brian E. Paul is a computer programmer who originally wrote and maintained the source code for the open source Mesa graphics library until 2012, and is still active in the project. He began writing its source code in August 1993. Mesa is a free software/open source graphics library that provides a generic OpenGL implementation for rendering three-dimensional graphics on multiple platforms."
tagline: "American software programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Paul_receiving_award_from_Richard_Stallman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.675882666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 248
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Paul"
    title: "Brian Paul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_(%D9%85%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3)"
    title: "برايان باول (مهندس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Paul"
    title: "Brian Paul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Paul"
    title: "Brian Paul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Paul"
    title: "Brian Paul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Paul"
    title: "Brian Paul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93067"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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