# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lou-ottens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:05:30.111Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lou-ottens"
name: "Lou Ottens"
slug: "lou-ottens"
description: "Lodewijk Frederik Ottens, known as Lou Ottens, was a Dutch engineer and inventor, best known as the inventor of the cassette tape, and for his work in helping to develop the compact disc. Ottens was employed by Philips for the entirety of his career."
tagline: "Dutch engineer and inventor (1926-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ir._L.F._Ottens%2C_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-06-21"
deathDate: "2021-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.055476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump