# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abraham-sinkov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:36:18.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abraham-sinkov"
name: "Abraham Sinkov"
slug: "abraham-sinkov"
description: "Abraham Sinkov was a US cryptanalyst. An early employee of the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service, he held several leadership positions during World War II, transitioning to the new National Security Agency after the war, where he became a deputy director. After retiring in 1962, he taught mathematics at Arizona State University."
tagline: "Signals Intelligence Service cryptographer (1907–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AbrahamSinkov.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1907"
deathDate: "1998-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.36
  momentum:             10.54560810810811
  historical:           5.673830666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Abraham Sinkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أبراهام سينكوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ابراهام سينكوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Абрахам Сінков"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Sinkov"
    title: "Abraham Sinkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%90%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC"
    title: "Синков, Абрахам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump