# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodore-ts-o
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:27:21.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodore-ts-o"
name: "Theodore Ts'o"
slug: "theodore-ts-o"
description: "Theodore Yue Tak Ts'o is an American software engineer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He is the secondary developer and maintainer of e2fsprogs, the userspace utilities for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems, and is a maintainer for the ext4 file system."
tagline: "American computer scientist, free software developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TheodoreTsoPict.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1968-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 175
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    handle:    "tytso"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump