# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-montgomery
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:10:39.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-montgomery"
name: "Chris Montgomery"
slug: "chris-montgomery"
description: "Christopher \"Monty\" Montgomery is an American programmer and engineer. He is the original creator of the Ogg Free Software container format and the Vorbis audio codec and others, and the founder of The Xiph.Org Foundation, which promotes public domain multimedia codecs. He uses xiphmont as an online pseudonym."
tagline: "American software developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Digital_Media_Primer_01_sreenshot_06_crop.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: "1972-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.75
  momentum:             1.297297297297297
  historical:           5.681714666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 250
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Montgomery"
    title: "Chris Montgomery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "كريس مونتجومري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Montgomery"
    title: "Christopher Montgomery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Montgomery"
    title: "Chris Montgomery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Montgomery"
    title: "Chris Montgomery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4_%EB%AA%BD%EA%B3%A0%EB%A9%94%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "크리스 몽고메리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1086856"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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