# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-kleiner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:38:44.171Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugene-kleiner"
name: "Eugene Kleiner"
slug: "eugene-kleiner"
description: "Eugene Kleiner was an Austrian-American engineer and venture capitalist. He is considered a pioneer of Silicon Valley. He was one of the original founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, part of the Traitorous Eight, and Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm which later became Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The company was an early investor in more than 300 information technology and biotech firms, including Amazon.com, AOL, Brio Technology, Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Genentech, Google, Hybritech, Intuit, Lotus Development, LSI Logic, Macromedia, Netscape, Quantum, Segway, Sun Microsystems and Tandem Computers."
tagline: "American engineer (1923–2003)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-05-12"
deathDate: "2003-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.9
  momentum:             2.849396856342147
  historical:           6.381645333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "يوجين كلاينر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kleiner"
    title: "Eugene Kleiner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kleiner"
    title: "Eugene Kleiner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "یوجین کلاینر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kleiner"
    title: "Eugene Kleiner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kleiner"
    title: "Eugene Kleiner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1261225"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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