# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lea-verou
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:52:37.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lea-verou"
name: "Lea Verou"
slug: "lea-verou"
description: "Lea Verou is a Greek-American computer scientist, front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Lesbos, Greece. Verou is currently a research assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), an elected participant in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Technical Architecture Group (TAG), and an invited expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.\nShe is the author of the book CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems (ISBN 978-1-449-37263-7)."
tagline: "Greek web developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lea-verou.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1986-06-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.406516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 70
totalFollowers: 16223
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/LeaVerou"
    handle:    "LeaVerou"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/leaverou"
    handle:    "leaverou"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leaverou/"
    handle:    "leaverou"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://lea.verou.me/"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/LeaVerou"
    handle:    "LeaVerou"
    followers: 16223
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ليا فيرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Verou"
    title: "Lea Verou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%92%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85"
    title: "Λία Βέρου"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Verou"
    title: "Lea Verou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%83%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Веру, Лия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18638030"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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