# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hakon-wium-lie
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:02:05.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hakon-wium-lie"
name: "Håkon Wium Lie"
slug: "hakon-wium-lie"
description: "Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer, a standards activist, and the chairman of YesLogic, developers of Prince CSS-based PDF rendering software. He is best known for developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994. He was the chief technology officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold to new owners in 2016."
tagline: "Norwegian software engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/H%C3%A5kon-Wium-Lie-2009-03.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1965-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.96663333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 209
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    handle:    "howcome"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump