# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-murdock
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:26:33.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-murdock"
name: "Ian Murdock"
slug: "ian-murdock"
description: "Ian Ashley Murdock was an American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company."
tagline: "American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Murdock_interview_at_Holiday_Club_hotel_2008_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1973-04-28"
deathDate: "2015-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill