# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-lech-johansen
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:27:33.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-lech-johansen"
name: "Jon Lech Johansen"
slug: "jon-lech-johansen"
description: "Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats. He wrote the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scramble System used for DVD licensing enforcement. Johansen is a self-trained software engineer, who quit high school during his first year to spend more time with the DeCSS case. He moved to the United States and worked as a software engineer for about a year, from October 2005 until November 2006, whereupon he returned to Norway. Johansen moved back to the United States in June, 2007."
tagline: "Norwegian programmer, one of the three DeCSS developers"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jon_Lech_Johansen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
category:
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  slug: "developers"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1983-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.29
  momentum:             7.099567099567101
  historical:           14.2711
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 140
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    handle:    "jonlech"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump