# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/max-newman
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:31:33.874Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/max-newman"
name: "Max Newman"
slug: "max-newman"
description: "Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, generally known as Max Newman, was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the world's first operational, programmable electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester, which produced the world's first working, stored-program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Baby."
tagline: "British mathematician (1897–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Max_Newman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1897-02-07"
deathDate: "1984-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump