# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-a-kirsch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:21:29.654Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-a-kirsch"
name: "Russell A. Kirsch"
slug: "russell-a-kirsch"
description: "Russell A. Kirsch was an American engineer at the National Bureau of Standards. He was recognized as the developer of the first digital image scanner, and subsequently scanned the world's first digital photograph – an image of his infant son."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1929-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Russell-Kirsch-and-Joel-Runyon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1929-06-20"
deathDate: "2020-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.420556000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "راسيل كيرش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Russell Kirsch"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirsch"
    title: "Russell Kirsch"
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    title: "Russell A. Kirsch"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirsch"
    title: "Russell Kirsch"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirsch"
    title: "Russell Kirsch"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirsch"
    title: "Russell Kirsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirsch"
    title: "Russell Kirsch"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_A._Kirsch"
    title: "Russell A. Kirsch"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirsch"
    title: "Russell Kirsch"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump