# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexey-pajitnov
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:43:10.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexey-pajitnov"
name: "Alexey Pajitnov"
slug: "alexey-pajitnov"
description: "Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union."
tagline: "Russian video game designer (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexey_Pajitnov_GDC_2024_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "developers"
profileType:
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  slug: "developer"
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birthDate: "1955-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             15.2992238282
  historical:           25.151872
  currentAttention:     8.892857142857142
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 56
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill