# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yukihiro-matsumoto
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:12:36.655Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/yukihiro-matsumoto"
name: "Yukihiro Matsumoto"
slug: "yukihiro-matsumoto"
description: "Yukihiro Matsumoto , also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer. He is best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI)."
tagline: "Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yukihiro_Matsumoto_(2018).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1965-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
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ranks:
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  country:  243
  category: 18
totalFollowers: 10461
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill