# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/timothy-christopher-may
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:28:12.538Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/timothy-christopher-may"
name: "Timothy Christopher May"
slug: "timothy-christopher-may"
description: "Timothy C. May, better known as Tim May, was an American technical and political writer, and electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel. May was also the founder of the crypto-anarchist movement. He retired from Intel in 1986 at age 35 and died of natural causes at his home on December 13, 2018 at age 66."
tagline: "American writer, engineer and scientist (1951–2018)"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-12-21"
deathDate: "2018-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "تيموثي س. ماي"
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    title: "Timothy C. May"
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    title: "Timothy C. May"
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    title: "Мэй, Тимоти"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump