# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-r-bourne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:51:21.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-r-bourne"
name: "Stephen R. Bourne"
slug: "stephen-r-bourne"
description: "Stephen Richard \"Steve\" Bourne is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career. He is well known as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command-line interfaces to Unix."
tagline: "British computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Bourne_at_SDWest2005.hires.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1944-01-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.51314266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-bourne-a23bb311/"
    handle:    "steve-bourne-a23bb311"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ستيفن ر. بورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Bourne"
    title: "Stephen R. Bourne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Bourne"
    title: "Stephen R. Bourne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Bourne"
    title: "Stephen R. Bourne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bourne"
    title: "Stephen Bourne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Bourne"
    title: "Stephen R. Bourne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bourne"
    title: "Stephen Bourne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bourne"
    title: "Stephen Bourne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Борн, Стивен"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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