# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-fernandez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:16:17.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-fernandez"
name: "Bill Fernandez"
slug: "bill-fernandez"
description: "Bill Fernandez is a user-interface architect and innovator who was Apple Computer's first full time employee when they incorporated in 1977 and was issued badge number 4. He is credited with introducing fellow Homestead High School student Steve Jobs to his friend Steve Wozniak and developing schematics for the Apple II so the computer could be mass-produced."
tagline: "American computer designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Fernandez_in_1972_Pegasus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           50.09
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.356090666666667
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "比尔·费尔南德斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Fernandez"
    title: "Bill Fernandez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Fernandez"
    title: "Bill Fernandez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "بیل فرناندز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Fernandez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ビル・フェルナンデス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%8C_%ED%8E%98%EB%A5%B4%EB%82%9C%EB%8D%B0%EC%A6%88"
    title: "빌 페르난데즈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Fernandez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Фернандес, Билл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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