# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-viterbi
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:45:02.696Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-viterbi"
name: "Andrew Viterbi"
slug: "andrew-viterbi"
description: "Andrew James Viterbi is an American electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm. He is the Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, which was named in his honor in 2004 in recognition of his $52 million gift."
tagline: "Italian-born American electrical engineer and businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/10-08ViterbiBIG.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-03-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.895113230035757
  historical:           14.348176
  currentAttention:     10.52840683353198
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump