# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ross-ulbricht
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:28:13.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ross-ulbricht"
name: "Ross Ulbricht"
slug: "ross-ulbricht"
description: "Ross William Ulbricht is an American cybercriminal who created and operated Silk Road, the first modern darknet market, from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. Silk Road was an online marketplace that facilitated the trade in narcotics and other illegal products and services. Sales were anonymous, using bitcoin. It operated as a hidden service on the Tor network. Ulbricht ran the site under the pseudonym \"Dread Pirate Roberts\" after the fictional character from The Princess Bride."
tagline: "American founder and administrator of the illicit online marketplace the Silk Road"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ross_Ulbricht_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1984-03-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.28
  momentum:             0.3707071190442009
  historical:           24.14054
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 248
platforms:
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    handle:    "realrossu"
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    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht/"
    handle:    "rossulbricht"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7137192/"
    handle:    "nm7137192"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump