# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-amara
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:05:48.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-amara"
name: "Roy Amara"
slug: "roy-amara"
description: "Roy Charles Amara was an American researcher, scientist, futurist and president of the Institute for the Future best known for coining Amara's law on the effect of technology. He held a BS in Management, an MS in the Arts and Sciences, and a PhD in Systems Engineering, and also worked at the Stanford Research Institute."
tagline: "American researcher, scientist (1925–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roy_Amara%2C_RIT_NandE_Vol12Num31_1980_Sep25_Complete.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1925-04-07"
deathDate: "2007-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.91674014944076
  historical:           10.32027066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump