# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-hotz
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:51:30.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-hotz"
name: "George Hotz"
slug: "george-hotz"
description: "George Francis Hotz, alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur, and software engineer. He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks, reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against him by Sony. From September 2015 until November 2025, he worked on his vehicle automation machine learning company comma.ai. Since November 2022, Hotz has been working on tinygrad, a deep learning framework."
tagline: "American hacker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Hotz_at_TechCrunch_Disrupt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1989-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           21.997492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 7
totalFollowers: 46840
platforms:
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    handle:    "realgeorgehotz"
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    handle:    "georgehotz"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "geohot"
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    handle:    "george-hotz-17425171"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    handle:    "geohot"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump