# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/randal-l-schwartz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:57:52.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/randal-l-schwartz"
name: "Randal L. Schwartz"
slug: "randal-l-schwartz"
description: "Randal L. Schwartz, also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant. He has written several books on the Perl programming language, and plays a promotional role within the Perl community. He was a co-host of FLOSS Weekly."
tagline: "American programmer and technology writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Randal_Schwartz_headshot_by_Chris_Marquardt.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1961-11-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.41098
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 250
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/merlyn"
    handle:    "merlyn"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/randalschwartz/"
    handle:    "randalschwartz"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/merlyn"
    handle:    "merlyn"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/"
sources:
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    title: "Шварц, Рэндел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راندال إل. شوارتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راندال ال. شوارتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Randal L. Schwartz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz"
    title: "Randal L. Schwartz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz"
    title: "Randal L. Schwartz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9E%9C%EB%93%A4_L._%EC%8A%88%EC%99%88%EC%B8%A0"
    title: "랜들 L. 슈왈츠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump