# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-richards-q2261833
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:35:08.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-richards-q2261833"
name: "Martin Richards"
slug: "martin-richards-q2261833"
description: "Martin Richards is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language which is both part of early research into portable software, and the ancestor of the B programming language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of his widely used C programming language."
tagline: "British computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1940-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.47
  momentum:             4.029850746268655
  historical:           8.281102666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E4%B8%81%C2%B7%E7%90%86%E5%AF%9F%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "馬丁·理察德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A8)"
    title: "مارتن ريتشاردز (عالم حاسوب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(Informatiker)"
    title: "Martin Richards (Informatiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(computer_scientist)"
    title: "Martin Richards (computer scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards"
    title: "Martin Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards"
    title: "Martin Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(informatiker)"
    title: "Martin Richards (informatiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards"
    title: "Martin Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards"
    title: "Martin Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2261833"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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