# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-hickson
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:51.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-hickson"
name: "Ian Hickson"
slug: "ian-hickson"
description: "Ian \"Hixie\" Hickson is a British-American software engineer, author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, the WHATWG HTML 5 specification, and the Pingback specification, and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0. He is known as a proponent of Web standards, and has played a crucial role in the development of specifications such as CSS. Hickson was a co-editor of the CSS 2.1 specification."
tagline: "Swiss scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Hickson_at_CSS_Working_Group_Meeting_Day_Three.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.012888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  240
  category: 96
totalFollowers: 1886
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.hixie.ch/"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/Hixie"
    handle:    "Hixie"
    followers: 1886
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E6%81%A9%C2%B7%E5%B8%8C%E5%85%8B%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "伊恩·希克森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ايان هيكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "ইয়ান হিকসন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hickson"
    title: "Ian Hickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hickson"
    title: "Ian Hickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hickson"
    title: "Ian Hickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hickson"
    title: "Ian Hickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD"
    title: "Хиксон, Ян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3507045"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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