# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lorinda-cherry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:51:32.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lorinda-cherry"
name: "Lorinda Cherry"
slug: "lorinda-cherry"
description: "Lorinda Cherry was an American computer scientist and programmer. Much of her career was spent at Bell Labs, where she was for many years a member of the original Unix Lab. Cherry developed several mathematical tools and utilities for text formatting and analysis, and influenced the creation of others."
tagline: "Computer scientist and original Unix team member (1944-2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Photo_of_Lorinda_Cherry.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1944-11-18"
deathDate: "2022"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.52
  momentum:             0.7299270072992701
  historical:           8.077250666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "لورینڈا چیری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "لوريندا تشيري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherryov%C3%A1"
    title: "Lorinda Cherryová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry"
    title: "Lorinda Cherry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry"
    title: "Lorinda Cherry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry"
    title: "Lorinda Cherry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry"
    title: "Lorinda Cherry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%A6'%D7%A8%D7%99"
    title: "לורינדה צ'רי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry"
    title: "Lorinda Cherry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4815272"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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