# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-von-ahn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:37:11.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-von-ahn"
name: "Luis von Ahn"
slug: "luis-von-ahn"
description: "Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan-American entrepreneur and software developer. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. For these projects and others, von Ahn is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing."
tagline: "Guatemalan entrepreneur and computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wikimania_2015_-_Day_2_(18)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1978-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "LuisvonAhn"
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    handle:    "luisvonahn"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump