# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sebastian-thrun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:34:00.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sebastian-thrun"
name: "Sebastian Thrun"
slug: "sebastian-thrun"
description: "Sebastian Thrun is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist. He was chief executive officer of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and is chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google vice president and Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and before that at Carnegie Mellon University. At Google, he co-founded Google X along with Yoky Matsuoka and Anthony Levandowski and Google's self-driving car team with Anthony Levandowski. He is also an adjunct professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech."
tagline: "German-American entrepreneur (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sebastian_Thrun_at_IAA_2019_IMG_0893.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1967-05-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.89
  momentum:             1.048689138576779
  historical:           12.52922
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/SebastianThrun"
    handle:    "SebastianThrun"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-thrun-59a0b273/"
    handle:    "sebastian-thrun-59a0b273"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2446747/"
    handle:    "nm2446747"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيباستيان ثون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sebastian Thrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun"
    title: "Sebastian Thrun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun"
    title: "Sebastian Thrun"
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    title: "セバスチアン・スラン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sebastian Thrun"
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    title: "Трун, Себастьян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1649776"
    title: "Sebastian Thrun"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump