# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-forsythe
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:58:24.746Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-forsythe"
name: "George Forsythe"
slug: "george-forsythe"
description: "George Elmer Forsythe was an American computer scientist and numerical analyst who founded and led Stanford University's Computer Science Department."
tagline: "Stanford University computer scientist (1917-1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_E._Forsythe_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-01-08"
deathDate: "1972-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.25
  momentum:             0.1198630136986301
  historical:           7.221276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Forsythe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "جورج فورسيث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Forsythe"
    title: "George Forsythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._Forsythe"
    title: "George E. Forsythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Forsythe"
    title: "George Forsythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Forsythe"
    title: "George Forsythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Elmer_Forsythe"
    title: "George Elmer Forsythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Forsythe"
    title: "George Forsythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507260"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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