# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-p-dempster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:08:17.893Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-p-dempster"
name: "Arthur P. Dempster"
slug: "arthur-p-dempster"
description: "Arthur Pentland Dempster was an American mathematician who was professor emeritus in the Harvard University department of statistics. He was one of four faculty members composing the department when it was founded in 1957."
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dempster_in_Brest.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-10-08"
deathDate: "2026-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.33
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.679122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Arthur P. Dempster"
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    title: "آرثر بى ديمبستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_P._Dempster"
    title: "Arthur P. Dempster"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_P._Dempster"
    title: "Arthur P. Dempster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_P._Dempster"
    title: "Arthur P. Dempster"
    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