# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustavus-simmons
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:27:00.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustavus-simmons"
name: "Gustavus Simmons"
slug: "gustavus-simmons"
description: "Gustavus J. Simmons is an American retired cryptographer and former manager of the applied mathematics Department and Senior Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. He worked primarily with authentication theory, developing cryptographic techniques for solving problems of mutual distrust and in devising protocols whose function could be trusted, even though some of the inputs or participants cannot be."
tagline: "American cryptographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gustavus_Simmons.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: "1930-10-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.193548387096774
  historical:           6.341253333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Симмонс, Густавус Джеймс"
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    title: "جوستاف سيمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Simmons"
    title: "Gustavus Simmons"
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    title: "Gustavus J. Simmons"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Simmons"
    title: "Gustavus Simmons"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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