# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-kleinrock
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:08:18.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-kleinrock"
name: "Leonard Kleinrock"
slug: "leonard-kleinrock"
description: "Leonard Kleinrock is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Kleinrock made several important contributions to the field of computer science, in particular to the mathematical foundations of data communication in computer networking. He has received numerous prestigious awards."
tagline: "American computer scientist (born 1934)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-06-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.5741127348643
  historical:           21.082476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump