# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-joy
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:24.691Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-joy"
name: "Bill Joy"
slug: "bill-joy"
description: "William Nelson Joy is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1954-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill