# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-inmon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:24:05.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-inmon"
name: "Bill Inmon"
slug: "bill-inmon"
description: "William H. Inmon is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference, wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing. Inmon created the accepted definition of what a data warehouse is - a subject-oriented, non-volatile, integrated, time-variant collection of data in support of management's decisions. Compared with the approach of the other pioneering architect of data warehousing, Ralph Kimball, Inmon's approach is often characterized as a top-down approach."
tagline: "American computer scientist and co-founder of the data warehouse"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.5
  momentum:             0.3903559127439724
  historical:           5.499246666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Inmon"
    title: "Bill Inmon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بيل اينمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Inmon"
    title: "Bill Inmon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Inmon"
    title: "Bill Inmon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Inmon"
    title: "William H. Inmon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Inmon"
    title: "Bill Inmon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93065"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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