# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-horton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:49.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-horton"
name: "Mary Ann Horton"
slug: "mary-ann-horton"
description: "Mary Ann Horton, is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode, and led the growth of Usenet in the 1980s."
tagline: "Usenet pioneer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Ann_Hortonp.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1955-11-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.69
  momentum:             0.6890459363957597
  historical:           9.888446666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://maryannhorton.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A2%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ماري آن هورتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مارى ان هورتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Hortonov%C3%A1"
    title: "Mary Ann Hortonová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton"
    title: "Mary Ann Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton"
    title: "Mary Ann Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton"
    title: "Mary Ann Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton"
    title: "Mary Ann Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton"
    title: "Mary Ann Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%A8_%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%A8"
    title: "ਮੈਰੀ ਐਨ ਹੋਰਟਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%BD"
    title: "Хортон, Мэри Энн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton"
    title: "Mary Ann Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92718"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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