# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/larry-ewing
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:09:50.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/larry-ewing"
name: "Larry Ewing"
slug: "larry-ewing"
description: "Larry Ewing is an American computer programmer who is known as the creator of the Linux mascot, Tux. The artwork was created in 1996, while Ewing was a student at Texas A&M University, originally as a submission for a contest to create the Linux logo. Though Ewing's submission didn't win, his artwork was adopted as the Linux \"brand character\". Ewing also created the Ximian and Mono monkey logos and is involved in:F-Spot: a project aiming to \"manage all your digital photography needs.\"\nGtkHTML: a fast HTML renderer and editor used in several free software projects.\nNovell Evolution: a mailer, a calendar and a contact manager, all in one.\nGIMP: an image manipulation program.\nMoonlight: an open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems.\nMimekit: A C# MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, TNEF and Unix mbox spools.\n.NET Foundation: an independent organization, incorporated to improve open-source software development and collaboration around the .NET Framework."
tagline: "American software programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Larry_ewing_linuxtag2007_berlin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1978-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.687336
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لاري إيوينغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ল্যারি ইউয়িং"
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    title: "Larry Ewing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ewing"
    title: "Larry Ewing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ewing"
    title: "Larry Ewing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Ewing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Ewing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Ewing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Ewing"
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    title: "Larry Ewing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Юинг, Ларри"
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    title: "Larry Ewing"
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    title: "Larry Ewing"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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