# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adrian-carmack
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:34:56.499Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adrian-carmack"
name: "Adrian Carmack"
slug: "adrian-carmack"
description: "Adrian Carmack is an American video game artist and one of four co-founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack. The founders met while working at Softdisk's Gamer's Edge division and started id in 1991. Adrian Carmack's primary role at the company was as an artist, including work on Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Quake, Quake II and Quake III Arena. He is credited as the creator of Doom's grotesque, gory art style as well as the term \"gibs\"."
tagline: "Video game artist and co-founder of id Software"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1969-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.468819246597024
  historical:           15.39709466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump