# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bjarne-stroustrup
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:50:58.113Z

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name: "Bjarne Stroustrup"
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description: "Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia."
tagline: "Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)"
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birthDate: "1950-12-30"
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totalFollowers: 4554
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill