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Sam Hocevar

French software and video game developer
Person Human Q3176866

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[11]
Date of birth
August 5, 1978
Place of birth
Forbach
Country of citizenship
France[6]
Occupation
computer scientist, engineer, programmer
Field of work
computer science[7]
Position held
Debian project leader, Debian developer[8]
Educated at
Télécom Paris, École Centrale Paris, Lycée Fabert[9]
Notable work
WTFPL[10]
Official website
sam.zoy.org[16]
Languages spoken, written or signed
French[17]
Family name
Hocevar[14]
Given name
Samuel[15]
Member of
The Debian Project
Residence
Paris[12]
Social media followers
+2032, +1995[18][19]
Website account on
Trello[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Sam Hocevar en Samuel Hocevar ar Sam Hocevar ar سام هوكيفر fr Sam Hocevar it Samuel Hocevar ja サム・オセヴァール pl Samuel Hocevar ru Сэм Хочевар zh 塞繆爾·霍切瓦 zh 桑·奥塞瓦 zh-hant 桑·奧塞瓦
🔖 Identifiers · 11
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
SamHocevarBigFace.jpg ↗
Debian Wiki article
SamHocevar
Freebase ID
/m/02qh92f
Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)
3040-136358
Giant Bomb Wiki ID
People/Sam_Hocevar
GitHub account
samhocevar
Hacker News username
SamHocevar
LinkedIn personal profile ID
samhocevar
Reddit username
samhocevar
ScreenScraper company ID
39801
X (Twitter) username
SamHocevar

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🔗 Connections
Occupation 4
engineer, programmer, computer scientist, software engineer
Educated at 2
Télécom Paris, École Centrale Paris
Field of work 2
artificial intelligence, computer science
Country of citizenship 1
France
Founded entities 1
Wikimedia France
Given name 1
Samuel
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
French
Notable work 1
WTFPL
Place of birth 1
Forbach
Residence 1
Paris
Sex or gender 1
male
Website account on 1
Trello
Works by author 1
WTFPL
← Developer 1
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Summary

Sam Hocevar was born on August 5, 1978[1], in Forbach[2]. He has worked as a computer scientist[3], engineer[4], and programmer[5].

Why It Matters

Works attributed to Sam Hocevar include WTFPL[20], a public-domain-equivalent license[21], founded in 2000[22].

FAQs

Where was Sam Hocevar born?

Sam Hocevar's place of birth was Forbach[2].

What did Sam Hocevar do for work?

Sam Hocevar worked as a computer scientist[3], engineer[4], and programmer[5].

Where did Sam Hocevar go to school?

Sam Hocevar was educated at Lycée Fabert[9].

Related Entities

artificial intelligence computer science computer scientist Forbach France programmer software engineer

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Crunchbase. wikidata.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . Crunchbase. stackoverflow.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [5] ↑ . programmers.stackexchange.com. programmers.stackexchange.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. 16w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Giant Bomb ID (former scheme) → 3040-136358
    "Added qualifier: MediaWiki page ID: 399826, Adding P9675 qualifier for P14470"
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