# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/makoto-nagao
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:20:59.355Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/makoto-nagao"
name: "Makoto Nagao"
slug: "makoto-nagao"
description: "Makoto Nagao  was a Japanese computer scientist. He contributed to various fields: machine translation, natural language processing, pattern recognition, image processing and library science. He was the 23rd president of Kyoto University (1997–2003) and the 14th director of National Diet Library in Japan (2007–2012)."
tagline: "Japanese computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Makoto_Nagao_cropped_Makoto_Nagao_20141212.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1936-10-04"
deathDate: "2021-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.9
  momentum:             16.54121863799283
  historical:           6.356517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Makoto_Nagao"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Nagao"
    title: "Makoto Nagao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Nagao"
    title: "Makoto Nagao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E5%B0%BE%E7%9C%9F"
    title: "長尾真"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%82%98%EA%B0%80%EC%98%A4_%EB%A7%88%EC%BD%94%ED%86%A0"
    title: "나가오 마코토"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BE"
    title: "Макото Нагао"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Nagao"
    title: "Makoto Nagao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6739954"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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