# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-mensch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:27:13.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-mensch"
name: "Bill Mensch"
slug: "bill-mensch"
description: "William David Mensch Jr. is an American electrical engineer born in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. He was a major contributor to the design of the Motorola 6800 8-bit microprocessor and was part of the team led by Chuck Peddle that created the MOS Technology 6502. He also designed the 16-bit successor to the 6502, the 65816."
tagline: "American computer chip engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Mensch_-_Western_Design_Center_(12924524534).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945-02-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.71
  momentum:             0.2564102564102564
  historical:           7.684738666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bill Mensch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B4"
    title: "بيل مينش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch"
    title: "Bill Mensch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch"
    title: "Bill Mensch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch"
    title: "Bill Mensch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch"
    title: "Bill Mensch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch"
    title: "Bill Mensch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch"
    title: "Bill Mensch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch"
    title: "Bill Mensch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163370"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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