# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:55:00.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-cooper"
name: "Alan Cooper"
slug: "alan-cooper"
description: "Alan Cooper is an American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the \"Father of Visual Basic\", Cooper is also known for his books About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. As founder of Cooper, a leading interaction design consultancy, he created the Goal-Directed design methodology and pioneered the use of personas as practical interaction design tools to create high-tech products. On April 28, 2017, Alan was inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows \"for his invention of the visual development environment in Visual BASIC, and for his pioneering work in establishing the field of interaction design and its fundamental tools.\""
tagline: "American computer programmer (b. 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AlanCooper.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-06-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: 113
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump