# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-hewlett
# Generated: 2026-09-02T18:08:10.784Z

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name: "Bill Hewlett"
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description: "Co-founded Hewlett-Packard with David Packard — the company that turned a Palo Alto garage into the birthplace myth of Silicon Valley and built an empire on oscillators, computers, and printers."
tagline: "American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1913–2001)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  William Redington Hewlett was born May 20, 1913. He trained as an engineer and met David Packard, with whom he started the Hewlett-Packard Company. Together they built HP into one of the defining technology firms of the twentieth century. Hewlett died January 12, 2001.