# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-cailliau
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:26:36.068Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-cailliau"
name: "Robert Cailliau"
slug: "robert-cailliau"
description: "Robert Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web from before it got its name. He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. He is listed as co-author of How the Web Was Born by James Gillies, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web."
tagline: "Belgian engineer and computer scientist (1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Cailliau_On_Desk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1947-01-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.43964133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.cailliau.org/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump