# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-nelson
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:25:43.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-nelson"
name: "Ted Nelson"
slug: "ted-nelson"
description: "Theodor Holm Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher of computer science, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to his profile published in Forbes in 1997, Nelson \"sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'.\""
tagline: "American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 249
totalFollowers: 10200
platforms:
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    handle:    "@thetednelson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump