# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-bray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:36:57.377Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-bray"
name: "Tim Bray"
slug: "tim-bray"
description: "Timothy William Bray is a Canadian software developer, environmentalist and political activist and one of the co-authors of the original XML specification. He worked for Amazon Web Services from December 2014 until May 2020 when he quit due to concerns over the terminating of whistleblowers. Previously he has been employed by Google, Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Bray has also founded or co-founded several start-ups, such as Antarctica Systems."
tagline: "Canadian software developer (b. 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tim_Bray.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1955-06-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.79
  momentum:             1.904761904761905
  historical:           4.629916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/timbray"
    handle:    "timbray"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "تيم براي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "تيم براى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray"
    title: "Tim Bray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray"
    title: "Tim Bray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Bray"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1502402"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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