# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ole-torvalds
# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:54:31.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ole-torvalds"
name: "Ole Torvalds"
slug: "ole-torvalds"
description: "Ole Torvalds was a Swedish-speaking Finnish journalist and poet. He was the father of journalist-politician Nils Torvalds and grandfather of software engineer Linus Torvalds famous for the Linux kernel."
tagline: "Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet from Finland (1916-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ole_Torvalds.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1916-08-04"
deathDate: "1995-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.48
  momentum:             11.38568129330254
  historical:           8.397773333333333
  currentAttention:     7.698229407236336
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Torvalds"
    title: "Ole Torvalds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B3"
    title: "اول تورڤالدس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%86%DA%B5%DB%8E_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B3"
    title: "ئۆڵێ تورڤالدس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Torvalds"
    title: "Ole Torvalds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Torvalds"
    title: "Ole Torvalds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Torvalds"
    title: "Ole Torvalds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Torvalds"
    title: "Ole Torvalds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Torvalds"
    title: "Ole Torvalds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Torvalds"
    title: "Ole Torvalds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Torvalds"
    title: "Ole Torvalds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1367643"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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