# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-allman
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:24:13.472Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-allman"
name: "Eric Allman"
slug: "eric-allman"
description: "Eric Paul Allman is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc."
tagline: "American computer programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Allman-lca2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1955-09-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.4
  momentum:             5.782184157030025
  historical:           15.96710133333333
  currentAttention:     23.42342342342342
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 169
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1160814/"
    handle:    "nm1160814"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Eric Allman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Allman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Allman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Allman"
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    title: "Eric Allman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Allman"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allman"
    title: "Eric Allman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Eric Allman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump