# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-c-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:13:28.117Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-c-johnson"
name: "Stephen C. Johnson"
slug: "stephen-c-johnson"
description: "Stephen Curtis Johnson is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs and AT&T for nearly 20 years. He is best known for Yacc, Lint, spell, and the Portable C Compiler, which contributed to the spread of Unix and C. He has also contributed to fields as diverse as computer music, psychometrics and VLSI design."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.44
  momentum:             0.5647058823529413
  historical:           7.482830666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://yaccman.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Johnson"
    title: "Stephen C. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Johnson"
    title: "Stephen C. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Johnson"
    title: "Stephen C. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Johnson"
    title: "Stephen Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Johnson"
    title: "Stephen C. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Johnson"
    title: "Stephen C. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "スティーヴン・カーティス・ジョンソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Johnson"
    title: "Stephen C. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Curtis_Johnson"
    title: "Stephen Curtis Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354454"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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