# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnold-spielberg
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:49.821Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arnold-spielberg"
name: "Arnold Spielberg"
slug: "arnold-spielberg"
description: "Arnold Meyer Spielberg was an American electrical engineer. He was instrumental in contributions to \"real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes\". For General Electric, he designed, with his colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 mainframe computer in 1959. He cited as his greatest contribution the first computer-controlled \"point of sale\" cash register. His children include filmmaker Steven Spielberg, screenwriter Anne Spielberg, and producer Nancy Spielberg."
tagline: "American electrical engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arnold_Spielberg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1917-02-06"
deathDate: "2020-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.01
  momentum:             24.42861741509738
  historical:           9.602445333333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818577/"
    handle:    "nm0818577"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg"
    title: "Arnold Spielberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg"
    title: "Arnold Spielberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg"
    title: "Arnold Spielberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg"
    title: "Arnold Spielberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg"
    title: "Arnold Spielberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg"
    title: "Arnold Spielberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg"
    title: "Arnold Spielberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg"
    title: "Arnold Spielberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%2C_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Спилберг, Арнольд Меер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15784029"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3132659"
    title: "Arnold Spielberg"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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