# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/werner-buchholz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:21:09.824Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/werner-buchholz"
name: "Werner Buchholz"
slug: "werner-buchholz"
description: "Werner Buchholz was a German-American computer scientist. After growing up in Europe, Buchholz moved to Canada and then to the United States. He worked for International Business Machines (IBM) in New York. In June 1956, he coined the term \"byte\" for a unit of digital information. In 1990, he was recognized as a computer pioneer by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1922–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1922-10-24"
deathDate: "2019-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.210512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Buchholz"
    title: "Werner Buchholz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "فيرنر بوتشولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B2_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "فيرنر بوتشولز (عالم كومبيوتر من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Buchholz_(Ingenieur)"
    title: "Werner Buchholz (Ingenieur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Buchholz"
    title: "Werner Buchholz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Buchholz"
    title: "Werner Buchholz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A8_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%94%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A5"
    title: "ורנר בוכהולץ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Buchholz"
    title: "Werner Buchholz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121866"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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