# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-norris
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:53:41.593Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-norris"
name: "William Norris"
slug: "william-norris"
description: "William Charles Norris was an American business executive. He was the CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world. He is famous for taking on IBM in a head-on fight and winning, as well as being a social activist who used Control Data's expansion in the late 1960s to bring jobs and training to inner cities and disadvantaged communities."
tagline: "CEO of Control Data Corporation (1911–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/16._Internationales_Management-Gespr%C3%A4ch-William_C._Norris-HSGN_028-00628.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1911-07-14"
deathDate: "2006-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.544889333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ウィリアム・ノリス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليام نوريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "وليام نوريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Norris"
    title: "William C. Norris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Norris_(CEO)"
    title: "William Norris (CEO)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Norris"
    title: "William Norris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84)"
    title: "ویلیام نوریس (مدیرعامل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93117"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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