# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanchana-kanchanasut
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:32:50.394Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanchana-kanchanasut"
name: "Kanchana Kanchanasut"
slug: "kanchana-kanchanasut"
description: "Kanchana Kanchanasut is a Thai computer scientist and professor at the Asian Institute of Technology who became the first Thai person to use email. She hosted the first server in Thailand connected to the Internet and registered Thailand's country code top-level domain .th in 1988. Kanchanasut was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013."
tagline: "Computer scientist and Internet pioneer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kanchana_Kanchanasut_-_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.22
  momentum:             3.333333333333333
  historical:           5.470518666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchana_Kanchanasut"
    title: "Kanchana Kanchanasut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchana_Kanchanasut"
    title: "Kanchana Kanchanasut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchana_Kanchanasut"
    title: "Kanchana Kanchanasut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kanchana_Kanchanasut"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchana_Kanchanasut"
    title: "Kanchana Kanchanasut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8D%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2_%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8D%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%95"
    title: "กาญจนา กาญจนสุต"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18276491"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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