| Full Name | Herman Hollerith |
| Birth Date | February 29, 1860 |
| Birth Place | Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Death Date | November 17, 1929 (aged 69) |
| Death Place | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Resting Place | Oak Hill Cemetery |
| Education | City College of New York; Columbia University (MinEng, PhD) |
| Occupations | Statistician, Inventor, Businessman |
| Known For | Electromechanical tabulation of punched card data, IBM |
| Spouse | Lucia Beverly (Talcott) Hollerith |
| Children | 6 |
| Awards | Elliott Cresson Medal (1890), World’s Columbian Exposition Bronze Medal (1892), National Inventors Hall of Fame (1990) |
| Significant Achievements | Developed the punched card tabulating machine, pioneering mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing systems |
| Company Founded | Founded a company that became part of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, later renamed IBM in 1924 |
| Legacy | Regarded as one of the seminal figures in the development of data processing |
| Early Life | Son of German immigrant Georg Hollerith, attended City College of New York and Columbia School of Mines |
| Academic Career | Taught mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Residence | Lived in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., with a business building on 31st Street |
| Death | Died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. |
