# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roberto-ierusalimschy
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:05:02.853Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roberto-ierusalimschy"
name: "Roberto Ierusalimschy"
slug: "roberto-ierusalimschy"
description: "Roberto Ierusalimschy is a Brazilian computer scientist, known for creating the Lua programming language. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro where he has an appointment as a full professor of informatics. He did a post-doc at University of Waterloo in 1992 and was visiting professor at Stanford University in 2012. He is the leading architect and the author of Programming in Lua. He also created LPeg, a Lua library for implementing parsing expression grammars."
tagline: "Brazilian computer scientist (born 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roberto_Ierusalimschy.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "BR"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 509
platforms:
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    url:       "https://github.com/roberto-ieru"
    handle:    "roberto-ieru"
    followers: 509
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump