# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-sommerville
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:48:02.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-sommerville"
name: "Ian Sommerville"
slug: "ian-sommerville"
description: "Ian F. Sommerville, is a British academic. He is the author of a popular student textbook on software engineering, as well as a number of other books and papers. He worked as a professor of software engineering at the University of St Andrews in Scotland until 2014 and is a prominent researcher in the field of systems engineering, system dependability and social informatics, being an early advocate of an interdisciplinary approach to system dependability."
tagline: "British academic"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-02-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.279122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://iansommerville.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Sommerville"
    title: "Ian Sommerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "إيان سومرفيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ايان سومرفيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Sommerville"
    title: "Ian Sommerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Sommerville_(software_engineer)"
    title: "Ian Sommerville (software engineer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Sommerville"
    title: "Ian Sommerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92855"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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