# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-mckinnon
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:26:17.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-mckinnon"
name: "Gary McKinnon"
slug: "gary-mckinnon"
description: "Gary McKinnon is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused by a US prosecutor in 2002 of perpetrating the \"biggest military computer hack of all time\". McKinnon said that he was looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. On 16 October 2012, after a series of legal proceedings in Britain, then Home Secretary Theresa May blocked extradition to the United States."
tagline: "British suspected hacker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gary_McKinnon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.485557083906465
  historical:           21.32904
  currentAttention:     8.253094910591471
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 104
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump