# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-e-kalman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:57:55.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-e-kalman"
name: "Rudolf E. Kálmán"
slug: "rudolf-e-kalman"
description: "Rudolf Emil Kálmán was a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. For this work, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Kálmán the National Medal of Science on October 7, 2009."
tagline: "Hungarian-born American electrical engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rudolf_Kalman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-05-19"
deathDate: "2016-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           21.740328
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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