# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-appel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:27:46.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-appel"
name: "Andrew Appel"
slug: "andrew-appel"
description: "Andrew Wilson Appel is the Eugene Higgins Professor of computer science at Princeton University. He is especially well known because of his compiler books, the Modern Compiler Implementation in ML (ISBN 0-521-58274-1) series, as well as Compiling With Continuations (ISBN 0-521-41695-7). He is also a major contributor to the Standard ML of New Jersey compiler, along with David MacQueen, John H. Reppy, Matthias Blume and others and one of the authors of Rog-O-Matic."
tagline: "Eugene Higgins Professor of computer science/Princeton University/New Jersey"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrew_Apple_(FloC_2006).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.276638666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اندرو اپل"
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    title: "ആൻഡ്രു അപ്പെൽ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump