# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-davies
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:55:04.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-davies"
name: "Donald Davies"
slug: "donald-davies"
description: "Donald Watts Davies, was a British computer scientist and Internet pioneer who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL)."
tagline: "British computer scientist (1924-2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Donald-Davies_Welsh_computer_scientist.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-06-07"
deathDate: "2000-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           10.32336666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Donald Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دونالد ديفيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Donald Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Watts_Davies"
    title: "Donald Watts Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Watts_Davies"
    title: "Donald Watts Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies"
    title: "Donald Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies"
    title: "Donald Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9"
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    title: "도널드 데이비스 (컴퓨터 과학자)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies"
    title: "Donald Davies"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump