# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernando-perez
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:51:04.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fernando-perez"
name: "Fernando Pérez"
slug: "fernando-perez"
description: "Fernando Pérez is a Colombian physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. He is best known as the creator of the IPython programming environment, for which he received the 2012 Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation and for his work on Project Jupyter for which he received the 2017 ACM Software System Award. He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization."
tagline: "Professor at the University of California, Berkeley"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fernando_Perez_-_2012_FSF_Award_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.84
  momentum:             3.459915611814346
  historical:           6.556301333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/fperez_org"
    handle:    "fperez_org"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://fernandoperez.org/"
sources:
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    title: "フェルナンド・ペレス (ソフトウェア開発者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "فرناندو بيريز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_P%C3%A9rez_(Softwareentwickler)"
    title: "Fernando Pérez (Softwareentwickler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_P%C3%A9rez_(software_developer)"
    title: "Fernando Pérez (software developer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_P%C3%A9rez_(programador)"
    title: "Fernando Pérez (programador)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "فرناندو پرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_P%C3%A9rez_(d%C3%A9veloppeur)"
    title: "Fernando Pérez (développeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21063462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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