# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-j-gunther
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:37:01.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-j-gunther"
name: "Neil J. Gunther"
slug: "neil-j-gunther"
description: "Neil Gunther is an Australian computer information systems researcher best known internationally for developing the open-source performance modeling software Pretty Damn Quick and developing the Guerrilla approach to computer capacity planning and performance analysis. He has also been cited for his contributions to the theory of large transients in computer systems and packet networks, and his universal law of computational scalability."
tagline: "Physicist, author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NJG_BletchleyPk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476890666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilgunther/"
    handle:    "neilgunther"
sources:
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    title: "نیل جی قانتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نيل جيه. غانثر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نيل جيه. جانثر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نیل جی گانتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_J._Gunther"
    title: "Neil J. Gunther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_J._Gunther"
    title: "Neil J. Gunther"
    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