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Gary McKinnon

British suspected hacker
Person Human Q380929

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[7]
Date of birth
February 1966
Place of birth
Glasgow
Country of citizenship
United Kingdom[5]
Occupation
programmer, hacker
Educated at
Highgate Wood Secondary School[6]
Birth date
1966-02-00
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[10]
Birth place
Glasgow
Family name
McKinnon[8]
Given name
Gary[9]
Quora topic
Gary-McKinnon-3
🏷️ Also known as
en Gary McKinnon en SOLO ar غاري ماكينون de UFO-Hacker de SOLO es Solo fr SOLO ja ゲイリー・マッキノン ru Гэри Маккиннон ru Маккиннон, Гэри sv McKinnon zh 加里·麥金農 zh 盖里·麦金农 zh-hant 蓋里·麥金農
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Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Gary McKinnon.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
0f7e97d4-fe04-4b86-8960-2e83d05e0384
Freebase ID
/m/06dvl4
MusicBrainz artist ID
6cefd4be-5845-454a-a411-eddb1e6ed5aa
Quora topic ID
Gary-McKinnon-3
The Guardian topic ID
world/gary-mckinnon
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
291170

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Occupation 3
hacker, programmer, software engineer
Country of citizenship 1
United Kingdom
Family name 1
McKinnon
Given name 1
Gary
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Place of birth 1
Glasgow
Sex or gender 1
male
← FactGrid item ID 1
Louis Pierre Deffès
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Summary

Gary McKinnon's place of birth was Glasgow[1]. He was born in February 1966[2]. He worked as a programmer[3] and hacker[4].

Product Details

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  • Type: Person[11]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 6cefd4be-5845-454a-a411-eddb1e6ed5aa[12]

FAQs

Where was Gary McKinnon born?

Gary McKinnon's place of birth was Glasgow[1].

What did Gary McKinnon do for work?

Gary McKinnon worked as programmer[3] and hacker[4].

Where did Gary McKinnon go to school?

Gary McKinnon was educated at Highgate Wood Secondary School[6].

Related Entities

programmer software engineer United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . standard.co.uk. standard.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . standard.co.uk. standard.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

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