# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-little
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:08.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-little"
name: "John Little"
slug: "john-little"
description: "John Dutton Conant Little was an American operations researcher and marketing scientist. He was an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a longtime faculty member of the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is best known for Little's law, the queueing-theory relation , which states that the long-run average number of items in a stable system equals the effective arrival rate multiplied by the average time an item spends in the system."
tagline: "American mathematics professor and scholar of operations research (1928–2024)"
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: "1928-02-01"
deathDate: "2024-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.23132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(prof%C3%A4soran)"
    title: "John Little (profäsoran)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84_(%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A)"
    title: "جون ليتل (رياضياتي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84_(%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "جون ليتل (رياضياتى من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._C._Little"
    title: "John D. C. Little"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(academic)"
    title: "John Little (academic)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little"
    title: "John Little"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(scientifique)"
    title: "John Little (scientifique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(fisico)"
    title: "John Little (fisico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809421"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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