# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-metcalfe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:05:58.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-metcalfe"
name: "Robert Metcalfe"
slug: "robert-metcalfe"
description: "Robert \"Bob\" Melancton Metcalfe is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network. Metcalfe has also made several predictions which failed to come to pass, including forecasting the demise of the internet during the 1990s."
tagline: "American electrical engineer"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1946-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump