# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-heinemeier-hansson
# Generated: 2026-08-31T12:56:41.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-heinemeier-hansson"
name: "David Heinemeier Hansson"
slug: "david-heinemeier-hansson"
description: "David Heinemeier Hansson, also known by his initials DHH, is a Danish programmer, writer, entrepreneur, and racing driver. He is the creator of Ruby on Rails, a web framework written in Ruby. He also created Omarchy, a pre-configured version of Arch Linux catered towards developers. He is also a partner and chief technology officer at the web-based software development firm 37signals."
tagline: "Programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Heinemeier_Hansson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
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birthDate: "1979-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     4.031250000000001
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 12
totalFollowers: 25117
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/dhh"
    handle:    "dhh"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/dhh79/"
    handle:    "dhh79"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/dhh"
    handle:    "dhh"
    followers: 25117
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump