# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niels-ferguson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:44:26.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/niels-ferguson"
name: "Niels Ferguson"
slug: "niels-ferguson"
description: "Niels T. Ferguson is a Dutch cryptographer and consultant. He has worked with others, including Bruce Schneier, designing cryptographic algorithms, testing algorithms and protocols, and writing papers and books. Among the designs Ferguson has contributed to is the AES finalist block cipher algorithm Twofish as well as the stream cipher Helix and the Skein hash function."
tagline: "Dutch cryptographer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1965-12-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.407128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Нільс Фергюсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "نيلز فيرغسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "نيلز فيرجسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Ferguson"
    title: "Niels Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Ferguson"
    title: "Niels Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Ferguson"
    title: "Niels Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Ferguson"
    title: "Niels Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81"
    title: "Фергюсон, Нильс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466478"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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