# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-vitter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:23.304Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-vitter"
name: "Jeffrey Vitter"
slug: "jeffrey-vitter"
description: "Jeffrey Scott Vitter is a U.S. computer scientist and academic administrator. Born in 1955 in New Orleans, Vitter has served in several senior higher education administration posts. He is a former chancellor of the University of Mississippi. He assumed the chancellor position on January 1, 2016. His formal investiture to the chancellorship took place on November 10, 2016, at the University of Mississippi's Oxford Campus."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeffrey_S._Vitter.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: "1955-11-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.71
  momentum:             8.697727578324592
  historical:           1.549245333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Vitter"
    title: "Jeffrey Vitter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6176327"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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