# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-adler
# Generated: 2026-08-31T11:50:36.862Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-adler"
name: "Mark Adler"
slug: "mark-adler"
description: "Mark Adler is an American software engineer. He is best known for his work in the field of data compression as the author of the Adler-32 checksum function, and a co-author, together with Jean-loup Gailly, of the zlib compression library and gzip. He has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format.\nAdler was also the Spirit Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission."
tagline: "American computer scientist, mathematician and physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Adler_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.97
  momentum:             1.646786870087841
  historical:           9.461632
  currentAttention:     6.619593998234774
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 925
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-adler-6770412/"
    handle:    "mark-adler-6770412"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~madler/"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/madler"
    handle:    "madler"
    followers: 925
sources:
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    title: "Mark Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارك ادلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارک آدلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler_(Informatiker)"
    title: "Mark Adler (Informatiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler"
    title: "Mark Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "مارک آدلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler"
    title: "Mark Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler"
    title: "Mark Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マーク・アドラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Адлер, Марк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump