# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/julian-seward
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:20:02.046Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/julian-seward"
name: "Julian Seward"
slug: "julian-seward"
description: "Julian Seward is a British compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Stuttgart. He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool in 1996, as well as the valgrind memory debugging toolset founded in 2000. In 2006, he won a second O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind. As of 2009, Seward worked at Mozilla."
tagline: "Compiler writer and Free Software contributor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Julian_Seward%2C_2011-09-15.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.28
  momentum:             0.3422053231939163
  historical:           6.543125333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8E%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Сюард, Джулиан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward"
    title: "Julian Seward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward"
    title: "Julian Seward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward"
    title: "Julian Seward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward"
    title: "Julian Seward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward"
    title: "Julian Seward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward"
    title: "Julian Seward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354027"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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