# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shawn-fanning
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:28:09.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shawn-fanning"
name: "Shawn Fanning"
slug: "shawn-fanning"
description: "Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ShawnFanningJI3.jpg?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: "1980-11-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.17
  momentum:             0.5786686838124053
  historical:           21.07641333333333
  currentAttention:     3.21482602118003
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 110
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/shawnfanning"
    handle:    "shawnfanning"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Shawn-Fanning%2F138605359497557"
    handle:    "Shawn-Fanning/138605359497557"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1357190/"
    handle:    "nm1357190"
sources:
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    title: "肖恩·范宁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شون فانينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شون فانينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Շոուն Ֆեննինգ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "숀 패닝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фэннинг, Шон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шон Феннінг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1159717"
    title: "Shawn Fanning"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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