# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-stepanov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:03:05.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-stepanov"
name: "Alexander Stepanov"
slug: "alexander-stepanov"
description: "Alexander Alexandrovich Stepanov is a Russian-American computer programmer, best known as an advocate of generic programming and as the primary designer and implementer of the C++ Standard Template Library, which he started to develop around 1992 while employed at HP Labs. He had earlier been working for Bell Labs close to Andrew Koenig and tried to convince Bjarne Stroustrup to introduce something like Ada generics in C++. He is credited with the notion of concept."
tagline: "Russian programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Stepanov.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.51
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.835465333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 89
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.stepanovpapers.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81_(%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%AC)"
    title: "ألكسندر ستيبانوف (مبرمج)"
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    title: "الكسندر ستيبانوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alexandrowitsch_Stepanow_(Informatiker)"
    title: "Alexander Alexandrowitsch Stepanow (Informatiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov"
    title: "Alexander Stepanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov"
    title: "Alexander Stepanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov"
    title: "Alexander Stepanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov"
    title: "Alexander Stepanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov"
    title: "Alexander Stepanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_(%D1%83%D1%87%D1%91%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9)"
    title: "Степанов, Александр Александрович (учёный)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump