# Julian Assange

> He published classified U.S. military footage and diplomatic cables that governments didn't want seen, then spent seven years in an embassy and five more in a British prison fighting extradition. The name carries weight because he made transparency a weapon and paid for it with a decade of confinement.

*Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/julian-assange

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Country:** Australia
- **Born:** 1971-07-03
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Julian Assange was born 3 July 1971, raised across Australia, and convicted of hacking in 1996 after time in the hacker community. He founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and published leaks on banks, Tibet, and Kenyan political killings before Chelsea Manning's 2010 disclosures - Baghdad airstrike footage, war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. diplomatic cables - brought him international attention and over two dozen awards. Swedish police sought him for questioning in November 2010; he breached bail in June 2012 and took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy, granted asylum that August on grounds of political persecution. He launched the WikiLeaks Party in 2013, published Democratic Party emails during the 2016 U.S. election showing the DNC favoured Clinton over Sanders, and in 2017 released CIA hacking tools - after which senior CIA officials discussed kidnapping or killing him. Ecuador withdrew asylum in April 2019; British police arrested him, a judge sentenced him to 50 weeks for breaching bail, and the U.S.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 78.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 13.8 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 30.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 32.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #17
- **Category rank:** #9

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/julianassange (@julianassange)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4006677/ (@nm4006677)

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