# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-larry-kelly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:43:00.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-larry-kelly"
name: "John Larry Kelly"
slug: "john-larry-kelly"
description: "John Larry Kelly Jr., was an American scientist who worked at Bell Labs. From a \"system he'd developed to analyze information transmitted over networks,\" from Claude Shannon's earlier work on information theory, he is best known for his 1956 work in creating the Kelly criterion formula. With notable volatility in its sequence of outcomes, the Kelly criterion can be used to estimate what proportion of wealth to risk in a sequence of positive expected value bets to maximize the rate of return."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/JohnLKellyJr.PNG"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923"
deathDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.88
  momentum:             3.080357142857142
  historical:           7.438664
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جون لاري كيلي جونيور"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Larry_Kelly_Jr."
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Larry_Kelly"
    title: "John Larry Kelly"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Larry_Kelly"
    title: "John Larry Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E6%8B%89%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E5%87%B1%E5%88%A9"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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