# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-daugman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:28:53.890Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-daugman"
name: "John Daugman"
slug: "john-daugman"
description: "John Gustav Daugman was a British-American professor of computer vision and pattern recognition at the University of Cambridge. His major research contributions have been in computational neuroscience, pattern recognition, and in computer vision with the original development of wavelet methods for image encoding and analysis. He invented the IrisCode, a 2D Gabor wavelet-based iris recognition algorithm that is the basis of all publicly deployed automatic iris recognition systems and which has registered more than 1.5 billion persons worldwide in government ID programs."
tagline: "British-American computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-02-17"
deathDate: "2024-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.275090666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Daugman"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Daugman"
    title: "John Daugman"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump