# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-hocevar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:47:38.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-hocevar"
name: "Sam Hocevar"
slug: "sam-hocevar"
description: "Samuel Hocevar is a French software and video game developer. He was the project leader of the Debian operating system from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008, and one of the founding members of Goatse Security."
tagline: "French software and video game developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SamHocevarBigFace.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1978-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.357813333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 245
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/SamHocevar"
    handle:    "SamHocevar"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samhocevar/"
    handle:    "samhocevar"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/samhocevar"
    handle:    "samhocevar"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://sam.zoy.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hocevar"
    title: "Samuel Hocevar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "سام هوكيفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hocevar"
    title: "Sam Hocevar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hocevar"
    title: "Sam Hocevar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hocevar"
    title: "Samuel Hocevar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hocevar"
    title: "Samuel Hocevar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hocevar"
    title: "Sam Hocevar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3176866"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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