# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurance-safford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:55:13.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laurance-safford"
name: "Laurance Safford"
slug: "laurance-safford"
description: "Captain, U.S.N. Laurance Frye Safford was a U.S. Navy cryptologist. He established the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and headed the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His identification with the Naval effort was so close that he was the Friedman of the Navy."
tagline: "American cryptographer (1893–1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Safford_pic.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1893-10-22"
deathDate: "1973-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.44
  momentum:             0.5414012738853503
  historical:           7.411916000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Лоренс Сеффорд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "لورانس سافورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurance_Safford"
    title: "Laurance Safford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurance_Safford"
    title: "Laurance Safford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurance_Safford"
    title: "Laurance Safford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurance_F._Safford"
    title: "Laurance F. Safford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurance_Safford"
    title: "Laurance Safford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Саффорд, Лоренс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q969429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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