# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-cowles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:49:23.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-cowles"
name: "Alfred Cowles"
slug: "alfred-cowles"
description: "Alfred Cowles III was an American economist, businessman, and founder of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, an influential research institute which advanced the field of econometrics in the 20th century. When he established the Cowles Commission in 1932, he was intent on making economics more of a \"science\" by collecting data and applying modern mathematical and statistical techniques. Although he shared the same name as his father and grandfather, both of whom had been involved with the Chicago Tribune Company, he preferred to be known simply as Alfred Cowles."
tagline: "American economist (1891–1984)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Alfred_Cowles.jpg"
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: "1891-09-15"
deathDate: "1984-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.08
  momentum:             0.8433734939759037
  historical:           5.676386666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alfred Cowles"
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    title: "阿爾弗雷德·考爾斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Cowles"
    title: "Alfred Cowles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Cowles"
    title: "Alfred Cowles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump