# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-ziv
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:31:04.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-ziv"
name: "Jacob Ziv"
slug: "jacob-ziv"
description: "Jacob Ziv was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel. He is also a namesake of the Ziv–Zakai bound in estimation theory, with Moshe Zakai."
tagline: "Israeli computer scientist (1931–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacob_Ziv.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IL"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1931-11-27"
deathDate: "2023-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump