# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-jackson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:00:55.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-jackson"
name: "Ian Jackson"
slug: "ian-jackson"
description: "Ian Jackson is a longtime free software author and Debian developer. Jackson wrote dpkg, SAUCE, userv and debbugs. He used to maintain the Linux FAQ. He runs chiark.greenend.org.uk, a Linux system which is home to PuTTY among other things."
tagline: "Computer programmer"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.877142666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 21
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/ijackson"
    handle:    "ijackson"
    followers: 21
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%98%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Джексон, Иан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "إيان جاكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jackson"
    title: "Ian Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jackson_(computer_programmer)"
    title: "Ian Jackson (computer programmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jackson"
    title: "Ian Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "イアン・ジャクソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jackson"
    title: "Ian Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jackson"
    title: "Ian Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Jackson"
    title: "Ian Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2981901"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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