# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claude-berrou
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:15:34.551Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claude-berrou"
name: "Claude Berrou"
slug: "claude-berrou"
description: "Claude Berrou is a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, now IMT Atlantique. He is the sole inventor of a groundbreaking quasi-optimal error-correcting coding scheme called turbo codes as evidenced by the sole inventorship credit given on the fundamental patent for turbo codes. The original patent filing for turbo codes issued in the US as US Patent 5,446,747."
tagline: "French mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.874730666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://perso.telecom-bretagne.eu/claudeberrou"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Berrou"
    title: "Claude Berrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Berrou"
    title: "Claude Berrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Berrou"
    title: "Claude Berrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Berrou"
    title: "Claude Berrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Berrou"
    title: "Claude Berrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Berrou"
    title: "Claude Berrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715848"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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