# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-szalay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:53:45.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-szalay"
name: "Alex Szalay"
slug: "alex-szalay"
description: "Alex Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy and computer science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering. Szalay is an international leader in astronomy, cosmology, the science of big data, and data-intensive computing. In 2023, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "Hungarian astrophysicist (1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alex_Szalay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.54
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.737509333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://idies.jhu.edu/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "اليكس سزالاى"
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    title: "الکس سلیای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Szalay"
    title: "Alexander Szalay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Szalay"
    title: "Alex Szalay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S%C3%A1ndor_Szalay"
    title: "A. Sándor Szalay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szalay_A._S%C3%A1ndor"
    title: "Szalay A. Sándor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1294258"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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