# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ole-johan-dahl
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:35:44.189Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/ole-johan-dahl"
name: "Ole-Johan Dahl"
slug: "ole-johan-dahl"
description: "Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist. Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard. In 2001, Dahl and Nygaard won the ACM Turing Award."
tagline: "Norwegian computer scientist (1931–2002)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
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birthDate: "1931-10-12"
deathDate: "2002-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump