# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-l-easton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:38:40.109Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-l-easton"
name: "Roger L. Easton"
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description: "Roger Lee Easton Sr. was an American physicist and state representative who was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System, along with Ivan A. Getting and Bradford Parkinson."
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deathDate: "2014-05-08"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump