# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-ossanna
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:50:30.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-ossanna"
name: "Joe Ossanna"
slug: "joe-ossanna"
description: "Joseph Frank Ossanna Jr. was an American electrical engineer and computer programmer who worked as a member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He became actively engaged in the software design of Multics, a general-purpose operating system used at Bell."
tagline: "American computer programmer (1928–1977)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1928-12-10"
deathDate: "1977-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.550001333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 250
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%96%AC%E4%BC%8A%C2%B7%E6%AD%90%E6%A1%91%E7%B4%8D"
    title: "喬伊·歐桑納"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "جو اوسانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ossanna"
    title: "Joseph Ossanna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna"
    title: "Joe Ossanna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "جو اوسانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ossanna"
    title: "Joseph Ossanna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna"
    title: "Joe Ossanna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92674"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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