# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-emeagwali
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:14:21.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-emeagwali"
name: "Philip Emeagwali"
slug: "philip-emeagwali"
description: "Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist. He is known for making controversial statements about his achievements, such as inventing the Internet and creating the world's fastest computer, the Connection Machine, which are disputed by the scientific community."
tagline: "Nigerian scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Emeagwali_2018-05-08_1_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.52
  momentum:             3.813455657492355
  historical:           11.362612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  249
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://emeagwali.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AF%E3%83%AA"
    title: "フィリップ・エミーグワリ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Филип Емегвали"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali"
    title: "Philip Emeagwali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2652702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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