# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerrit-blaauw
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:41:54.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerrit-blaauw"
name: "Gerrit Blaauw"
slug: "gerrit-blaauw"
description: "Gerrit Anne \"Gerry\" Blaauw was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others."
tagline: "Dutch computer scientist (1924–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerrit_A._Blaauw_circa_1950.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-07-17"
deathDate: "2018-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.404464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "جيريت بلاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Blaauw"
    title: "Gerrit Blaauw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Blaauw"
    title: "Gerrit Blaauw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Blaauw"
    title: "Gerrit Blaauw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Blaauw"
    title: "Gerrit Blaauw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Blaauw"
    title: "Gerrit Blaauw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Blaauw"
    title: "Gerrit Blaauw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Blaauw_(wetenschapper)"
    title: "Gerrit Blaauw (wetenschapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Blaauw"
    title: "Gerrit Blaauw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Blaauw"
    title: "Gerrit Blaauw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2632606"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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