# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adriaan-van-wijngaarden
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:18:00.892Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adriaan-van-wijngaarden"
name: "Adriaan van Wijngaarden"
slug: "adriaan-van-wijngaarden"
description: "Adriaan \"Aad\" van Wijngaarden was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van Wijngaarden emphasized and promoted the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of such languages."
tagline: "Dutch computer scientist (1916-1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aad_van_Wijngaarden_(1978).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-11-02"
deathDate: "1987-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.390887290167866
  historical:           10.70086666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 159
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    title: "ادريان ڤان ويچنجاردين"
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    title: "Adriaan van Wijngaarden"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan_van_Wijngaarden"
    title: "Adriaan van Wijngaarden"
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    title: "Adriaan van Wijngaarden"
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    title: "Adriaan van Wijngaarden"
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    title: "Adriaan van Wijngaarden"
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    title: "Adriaan van Wijngaarden"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump