# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rusty-russell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:07:16.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rusty-russell"
name: "Rusty Russell"
slug: "rusty-russell"
description: "Rusty Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate, known for his work on the Linux kernel's networking subsystem and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard."
tagline: "Australian computer programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rusty_Russell-lca2011%2Bcrop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1973-01-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.18
  momentum:             0.6835443037974684
  historical:           7.215192
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 250
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Russell_(programista)"
    title: "Paul Russell (programista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%A6_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "صدئ راسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell"
    title: "Rusty Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell"
    title: "Rusty Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "روستی راسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ラスティ・ラッセル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9F%AC%EC%8A%A4%ED%8B%B0_%EB%9F%AC%EC%85%80"
    title: "러스티 러셀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastijs_Rasels"
    title: "Rastijs Rasels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93126"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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