# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allan-alcorn
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:27:09.875Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allan-alcorn"
name: "Allan Alcorn"
slug: "allan-alcorn"
description: "Allan Edwin Alcorn is an American computer scientist and video game designer. He is best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time."
tagline: "American electrical engineer and computer scientist (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AlAlcorn-Cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1948-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.74413866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 191
platforms:
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    handle:    "alalcorn"
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    handle:    "allan-alcorn-6530b214"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1349607/"
    handle:    "nm1349607"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ألان ألكورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الان الكورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Allan Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Allan Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Alcorn"
    title: "Allan Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Alcorn"
    title: "Allan Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Alcorn"
    title: "Allan Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Allan Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Allan Alcorn"
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    title: "Allan Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Allan Alcorn"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537592"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump