# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-h-ellis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:57:39.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-h-ellis"
name: "James H. Ellis"
slug: "james-h-ellis"
description: "James Henry Ellis was a British engineer and cryptographer. Born in Australia but raised and educated in Britain, Ellis joined GCHQ in 1952. He worked on a number of cryptographic projects, but is credited with some of the original thinking that developed into the field of Public Key Cryptography (PKC)."
tagline: "British cryptographer (1924-1997)"
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: "1924-09-25"
deathDate: "1997-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.544241333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ellis"
    title: "James Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis"
    title: "James H. Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis"
    title: "James H. Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ellis"
    title: "James Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis"
    title: "James H. Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BBH%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジェイムズ・H・エリス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ellis"
    title: "James Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161062"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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