# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raymond-tomlinson
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:29:10.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raymond-tomlinson"
name: "Raymond Tomlinson"
slug: "raymond-tomlinson"
description: "Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who invented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; it was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer. To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the username from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since."
tagline: "American computer programmer (1941-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Tomlinson_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1941-04-23"
deathDate: "2016-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.25
  momentum:             6.239316239316239
  historical:           21.29896933333334
  currentAttention:     22.28327228327229
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 99
platforms:
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    url:       "http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/home.html"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill