# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-gentleman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:23:38.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-gentleman"
name: "Robert Gentleman"
slug: "robert-gentleman"
description: "Robert Clifford Gentleman is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician who is currently the founding executive director of the Center for Computational Biomedicine at Harvard Medical School. He was previously the vice president of computational biology at 23andMe. Gentleman is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language and the Bioconductor project."
tagline: "Canadian statistician and bioinformatician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Gentleman_on_R_Consortium.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.371889333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-gentleman-06845098/"
    handle:    "robert-gentleman-06845098"
sources:
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    title: "罗伯特·杰特曼"
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    title: "رابرت قنتمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gentleman_(statistician)"
    title: "Robert Gentleman (statistician)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gentleman"
    title: "Robert Gentleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gentleman_(statistikawan)"
    title: "Robert Gentleman (statistikawan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Gentleman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump