# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/werner-koch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:41:36.790Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/werner-koch"
name: "Werner Koch"
slug: "werner-koch"
description: "Werner Koch is a German free software developer. He is best known as the principal author of the GNU Privacy Guard. He was also Head of Office and German Vice-Chancellor of the Free Software Foundation Europe. He is the winner of Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2015 for founding GnuPG."
tagline: "German free software developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Werner_Koch_Portrait_01.2015-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.75
  momentum:             7.237569060773481
  historical:           13.52282666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://werner.eifzilla.de/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Koch"
    title: "Werner Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Werner Koch"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Werner Koch (informaticien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Werner Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ヴェルナー・コッホ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Werner Koch"
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    title: "Werner Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump