# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andy-gavin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:35:04.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andy-gavin"
name: "Andy Gavin"
slug: "andy-gavin"
description: "Andrew Scott Gavin is an American video game programmer, entrepreneur, and novelist. Gavin co-founded the video game company Naughty Dog with childhood friend Jason Rubin in 1986, which released games including Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter. Prior to founding Naughty Dog, Gavin worked in the LISP programming language at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory."
tagline: "American video game programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AGHeadshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-06-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.68
  momentum:             1.886292459648277
  historical:           10.64429066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://all-things-andy-gavin.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "أندي غافن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اندى جافين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin"
    title: "Andy Gavin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin"
    title: "Andy Gavin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin"
    title: "Andy Gavin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin"
    title: "Andy Gavin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin"
    title: "Andy Gavin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin"
    title: "Andy Gavin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8"
    title: "Гэвин, Энди"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin"
    title: "Andy Gavin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Енді Ґевін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump