# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-stealey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:05:48.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-stealey"
name: "Bill Stealey"
slug: "bill-stealey"
description: "John Wilbur Stealey Sr., better known as Bill Stealey, is an American game developer and publisher, and a former military pilot. Stealey founded MicroProse with Sid Meier in 1982 and released many flight simulators with the company. He was known for his appearances in military uniform and aerial stunts aboard the company's real plane while promoting the games. After a brief retirement in the early 1990s, he founded iEntertainment Network in 1995 and is the current CEO. In 2018 he also re-acquired MicroProse assets and revived the studio with David Lagettie. Stealey acts largely in a consultancy capacity at the revived studio."
tagline: "Retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and video game designer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.63
  momentum:             0.2635431918008785
  historical:           5.491902666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bill Stealey"
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    title: "Bill Stealey"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stealey"
    title: "Bill Stealey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stealey"
    title: "Bill Stealey"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stealey"
    title: "Bill Stealey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stealey"
    title: "Bill Stealey"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q328462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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