# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-colin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:23:55.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-colin"
name: "Andrew Colin"
slug: "andrew-colin"
description: "Andrew John Theodore Colin was a British university professor of computer science, born in 1936. He is a co-inventor of the widely used Binary Tree data structure. Professor Colin published 12 textbooks on various aspects of Computer Science, some of which have been translated into other languages."
tagline: "British computer scientist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/ProfessorAndrewJTColin.jpg/330px-ProfessorAndrewJTColin.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936"
deathDate: "2018-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.09
  momentum:             16
  historical:           5.270626666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Andrew Colin"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Colin"
    title: "Andrew Colin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أندرو كولن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Colin"
    title: "Andrew Colin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%82_%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "ஆண்ட்ரூ காலின்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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