# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wietse-venema
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:00:04.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wietse-venema"
name: "Wietse Venema"
slug: "wietse-venema"
description: "Wietse Zweitze Venema is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote TCP Wrapper and collaborated with Dan Farmer to produce the computer security tools SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit."
tagline: "Dutch computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wietse_Venema.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.43
  momentum:             2.636619718309859
  historical:           11.14794933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.porcupine.org/wietse/"
sources:
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    title: "Wietse Venema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "ويتس ڤينيما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ویتس ونما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Вице Венема"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wietse_Zweitze_Venema"
    title: "Wietse Zweitze Venema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wietse_Venema"
    title: "Wietse Venema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wietse_Venema"
    title: "Wietse Venema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "ویتس ونما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wietse_Venema"
    title: "Wietse Venema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wietse_Venema"
    title: "Wietse Venema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wietse_Venema"
    title: "Wietse Venema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wietse_Venema"
    title: "Wietse Venema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Венема, Виетс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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