# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-shuttleworth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:38:52.757Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-shuttleworth"
name: "Mark Shuttleworth"
slug: "mark-shuttleworth"
description: "Mark Richard Shuttleworth is a South African and British entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the Linux operating system variant Ubuntu. In 2002, Shuttleworth became the first African to travel to space, doing so as a space tourist. He holds dual citizenship from South Africa and the United Kingdom. In 2020, the Sunday Times Rich List estimated Shuttleworth's net worth to be £500 million."
tagline: "South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Markshuttleworth-dublin-20101116.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1973-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           24.399312
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  61
  category: 138
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill