# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-ashton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:42:48.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-ashton"
name: "Kevin Ashton"
slug: "kevin-ashton"
description: "Kevin Ashton is a British technology pioneer who cofounded the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which created a global standard system for RFID and other sensors. He is known for coining the term \"the Internet of Things\" to describe a system where the Internet is connected to the physical world via ubiquitous sensors."
tagline: "British entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kevin_Ashton_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1968"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.89
  momentum:             8.232558139534884
  historical:           6.772969333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%95%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Кевін Ештон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كيفن آشتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ashton"
    title: "Kevin Ashton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ashton"
    title: "Kevin Ashton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "کوین اشتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ashton"
    title: "Kevin Ashton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Эштон, Кевин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6395753"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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