# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-landin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:51:31.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-landin"
name: "Peter Landin"
slug: "peter-landin"
description: "Peter John Landin was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realise that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to the development of both functional programming and denotational semantics."
tagline: "British computer scientist (1930–2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Peter_Landin.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1930-06-05"
deathDate: "2009-06-03"
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