# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-malan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:06:45.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-malan"
name: "David Malan"
slug: "david-malan"
description: "David Jay Malan is an American computer scientist and professor. Malan is a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, and is best known for teaching the course CS50, which is the largest open-learning course at Harvard University and Yale University and the largest massive open online course at EdX, with lectures being viewed by over a million people on the edX platform up to 2017."
tagline: "American computer scientist and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_J._Malan.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Podcasters"
  slug: "podcasters"
profileType:
  name: "Podcaster"
  slug: "podcaster"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.665921333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 50
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://cs.harvard.edu/malan/"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/davidjmalan"
    handle:    "davidjmalan"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/davidjmalan/"
    handle:    "davidjmalan"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/dmalan"
    handle:    "dmalan"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/malan/"
    handle:    "malan"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Девід Малан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديفيد مالان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malan"
    title: "David Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Malan"
    title: "David J. Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Malan"
    title: "David J. Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Малан, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Malan"
    title: "David J. Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149098"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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