Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler is one of the unsung heroes of modern software. He isn't a flashy celebrity, yet countless engineers around the world owe their saner codebases to his writing. His 1999 book Refactoring did something rare: it turned the messy, intuitive act of cleaning up code into a named, teachable discipline. What I admire most is his gift for making hard ideas about object-oriented design and agile development genuinely accessible, and his generosity in publishing so much of it freely on his own site. To me he reads like the conscience of the engineering profession, quietly reshaping how the whole industry works.

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Name (English)

Martin Fowler

Name (Japanese)

マーティン・ファウラー

Reading

まーてぃん・ふぁうらー

Born

December 18, 1963 (age 62)

Origin

Walsall, United Kingdom

Occupation

writer / blogger / programmer / computer scientist / IT consultant

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit

University

University College London

• Official sitehttps://martinfowler.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/martinfowler
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Fowler%20(software%20engineer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A6%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74894

Tags

• writer
• blogger
• programmer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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