# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-vixie
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:54:47.568Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-vixie"
name: "Paul Vixie"
slug: "paul-vixie"
description: "Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology. He also created and launched the first successful commercial anti-spam service. He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises. In 2002, Vixie held the record for \"most CERT advisories due to a single author\"."
tagline: "American internet pioneer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Vixie_-_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.49910266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 143
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/paulvixie"
    handle:    "paulvixie"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/vixie"
    handle:    "vixie"
    followers: 143
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie"
    title: "Paul Vixie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie"
    title: "Paul Vixie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie"
    title: "Paul Vixie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%84_%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "پل ویکسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie"
    title: "Paul Vixie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie"
    title: "Paul Vixie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie"
    title: "Paul Vixie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ポール・ヴィクシー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie"
    title: "Paul Vixie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie"
    title: "Paul Vixie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Викси, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92777"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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