# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-shugart
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:49:10.518Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-shugart"
name: "Alan Shugart"
slug: "alan-shugart"
description: "Alan Field Shugart was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry."
tagline: "American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive (1930-2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Alan_Shugart.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1930-09-27"
deathDate: "2006-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump