# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andy-hertzfeld
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:26:20.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andy-hertzfeld"
name: "Andy Hertzfeld"
slug: "andy-hertzfeld"
description: "Andrew Jay Hertzfeld is an American software engineer who was a member of Apple Computer's original Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software."
tagline: "American computer scientist and inventor (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andy_Hertzfeld_1985_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1953-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: 142
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump