# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-ashton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:30:07.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-ashton"
name: "Alan Ashton"
slug: "alan-ashton"
description: "Alan C. Ashton is the co-founder of WordPerfect Corporation and a former professor at Brigham Young University (BYU). Ashton worked for a time with Novell after the company bought WordPerfect, and subsequently founded Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah."
tagline: "American businessman"
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: "1942-05-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.46
  momentum:             4.64788732394366
  historical:           5.279050666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ashton"
    title: "Alan Ashton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3._%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ألان س. أشتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3._%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "الان س. اشتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%B9%D9%86"
    title: "ایلن سی ایشٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_C._Ashton"
    title: "Alan C. Ashton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_C._Ashton"
    title: "Alan C. Ashton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92713"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump