# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-murray-wonham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:08:14.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-murray-wonham"
name: "Walter Murray Wonham"
slug: "walter-murray-wonham"
description: "Walter Murray Wonham was a Canadian control theorist and professor at the University of Toronto. He focused on multi-variable geometric control theory, stochastic control and stochastic filters, and the control of discrete event systems from the standpoint of mathematical logic and formal languages."
tagline: "Canadian control theorist and professor (1934–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wonham.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934"
deathDate: "2023-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.08
  momentum:             9.270833333333334
  historical:           5.673326666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.control.utoronto.ca/people/profs/wonham/Index.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murray_Wonham"
    title: "Walter Murray Wonham"
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    title: "والتر موراى وونهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._M._Wonham"
    title: "W. M. Wonham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уонхэм, Уолтер Маррей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murray_Wonham"
    title: "Walter Murray Wonham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murray_Wonham"
    title: "Walter Murray Wonham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump