# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-franklin-noble
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:55:24.863Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-franklin-noble"
name: "David Franklin Noble"
slug: "david-franklin-noble"
description: "David Franklin Noble was a historian and critic of technology, science and education, best known for his seminal work on the social history of automation. In his final years he taught in the Division of Social Science and the department of Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, Canada. Noble held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Smithsonian Institution, and Drexel University, as well as many visiting professorships."
tagline: "US historian & tech critic (1945-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David-Noble%3DP6043969-c.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-07-22"
deathDate: "2010-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.686250666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5726286/"
    handle:    "nm5726286"
sources:
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    title: "David F. Noble"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد إف. نوبل"
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    title: "David F. Noble"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Noble"
    title: "David F. Noble"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Franklin_Noble"
    title: "David Franklin Noble"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump