# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-surman
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:32:27.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-surman"
name: "Mark Surman"
slug: "mark-surman"
description: "Mark Surman is a Canadian open internet activist and the president of the Mozilla Foundation. He is a leading advocate for trustworthy AI, digital privacy, and the open internet. Before joining the Mozilla Foundation, Mark spent more than 15 years leading organizations and projects promoting the use of the internet and open source for social empowerment in many countries around the world."
tagline: "Canadian internet activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark-surman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1969-02-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.624228
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "مارك سورمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "মার্ক সারমেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Surman"
    title: "Mark Surman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Surman"
    title: "Mark Surman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "マーク・サーマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16885969"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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