# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marshall-kirk-mckusick
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:28:11.594Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marshall-kirk-mckusick"
name: "Marshall Kirk McKusick"
slug: "marshall-kirk-mckusick"
description: "Marshall Kirk McKusick is an American computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He served on the board of the USENIX Association from 1986 to 1992 and again from 2000 to 2006, including terms as president from 1990 to 1992 and 2000 to 2002. He served on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine from 2002 to 2019. He served on the board of the FreeBSD Foundation from 2012 to 2022. He is known to friends and colleagues as \"Kirk\"."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marshall_Kirk_McKusick--in_LCA_2011_(linux.conf.au_2011)%2C_Brisbane%2C_Queensland%2C_Australia--2011-01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1954-01-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump