# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-hall
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:24:16.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-hall"
name: "Jon Hall"
slug: "jon-hall"
description: "Jon \"maddog\" Hall is the board chair for the Linux Professional Institute."
tagline: "Programmer and major contributor to the Linux project"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jon_Maddog_Hall.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1950-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.48
  momentum:             4.131205673758866
  historical:           14.057384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 168
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1159139/"
    handle:    "nm1159139"
sources:
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    title: "Jon Hall (računalnikar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85)"
    title: "جون هال (عالم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون هال (مبرمج من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(Informatiker)"
    title: "Jon Hall (Informatiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer)"
    title: "Jon Hall (programmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall"
    title: "Jon Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_(%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3)"
    title: "جان هال (برنامه‌نویس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(ohjelmoija)"
    title: "Jon Hall (ohjelmoija)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmeur)"
    title: "Jon Hall (programmeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall"
    title: "Jon Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(usoro_ihe_omume)"
    title: "Jon Hall (usoro ihe omume)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(informatico)"
    title: "Jon Hall (informatico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョン・ホール (プログラマ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall"
    title: "Jon Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmerer)"
    title: "Jon Hall (programmerer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(informatyk)"
    title: "Jon Hall (informatyk)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall"
    title: "Jon Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92842"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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