# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-yourdon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:04:20.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-yourdon"
name: "Edward Yourdon"
slug: "edward-yourdon"
description: "Edward Nash Yourdon was an American software engineer, computer consultant, author and lecturer, and software engineering methodology pioneer. He was one of the lead developers of the structured analysis techniques of the 1970s and a co-developer of both the Yourdon/Whitehead method for object-oriented analysis/design in the late 1980s and the Coad/Yourdon methodology for object-oriented analysis/design in the 1990s."
tagline: "American software engineer and pioneer in the software engineering methodology (1944-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yourdon%2C_Edward_(2008).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-04-30"
deathDate: "2016-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.yourdon.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump