# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-kilburn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:00:53.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-kilburn"
name: "Tom Kilburn"
slug: "tom-kilburn"
description: "Tom Kilburn was an English mathematician and computer scientist. Over his 30-year career, he was involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams–Kilburn tube and the world's first electronic stored-program computer, the Manchester Baby, while working at the University of Manchester. His work propelled Manchester and Britain into the forefront of the emerging field of computer science."
tagline: "British electrical engineer (1921–2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Tom_Kilburn.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-08-11"
deathDate: "2001-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.22
  momentum:             0.5609284332688589
  historical:           15.55298933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump