# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terry-welch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:16:06.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terry-welch"
name: "Terry Welch"
slug: "terry-welch"
description: "Terry Archer Welch was an American computer scientist. Along with Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, he developed the lossless Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) compression algorithm, which was published in 1984."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Terry_Archer_Welch_%281939-1988%29.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1939-01-20"
deathDate: "1988-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.209504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E9%9F%A6%E5%B0%94%E5%A5%87"
    title: "特里·韦尔奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B4"
    title: "تيري ويلش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Welch"
    title: "Terry Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Welch"
    title: "Terry Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Welch"
    title: "Terry Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Welch"
    title: "Terry Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%87%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Велч, Терри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%87"
    title: "Террі Велч"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92915"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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