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Simon Willison

British computer programmer

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Simon Willison is a British programmer, co-founder of the social conference directory Lanyrd, and co-creator of the Django Web framework.

1 linked to Simon Willison in Wikidata

37 statements · 16% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Sex or gender: male
Given name: Simon
Website: simonwillison.net language: English
Social media followers: 5,200(October 25, 2025) youtube channel id: UCPzGwk1N5ea7sV3S2c2x1kg
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1.Stated in YouTube APIRetrieved 2025-10-25
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44,822(February 9, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 12497
998(August 23, 2023) youtube channel id: UCPzGwk1N5ea7sV3S2c2x1kg
286(March 27, 2022) youtube channel id: UCPzGwk1N5ea7sV3S2c2x1kg
29,972(February 26, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 12497
22,001(January 1, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 12497
16,077(May 10, 2018) x (twitter) numeric user id: 12497
Family name: Willison

12 identifiers linking Simon Willison across the web's reference databases

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