# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-tomlinson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:40:05.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-tomlinson"
name: "Roger Tomlinson"
slug: "roger-tomlinson"
description: "Roger Frank Tomlinson was an English-Canadian geographer and the primary originator of modern geographic information systems (GIS), and has been acknowledged as the \"father of GIS.\""
tagline: "English geographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RogerGlobe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1933-11-17"
deathDate: "2014-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.552809333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "রজার টমলিনসন"
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    title: "Ρότζερ Τόμλινσον"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roger Tomlinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson"
    title: "Roger Tomlinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راجر اف تاملینسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roger Tomlinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson"
    title: "Roger Tomlinson"
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    title: "Roger Tomlinson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump