# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-wallace
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:26.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-wallace"
name: "Bob Wallace"
slug: "bob-wallace"
description: "Bob Wallace was an American software developer, programmer and the ninth Microsoft employee. He was the first popular user of the term shareware, creator of the word processing program PC-Write, founder of the software company Quicksoft and an \"online drug guru\" who devoted much time and money to the research of psychedelic drugs."
tagline: "American philanthropist (1949-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bob_Wallace_1977.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949-05-29"
deathDate: "2002-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.65
  momentum:             8.54916618746406
  historical:           5.677214666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wallace_(Informatiker)"
    title: "Bob Wallace (Informatiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A8)"
    title: "بوب والاس (عالم حاسوب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "بوب والاس (عالم كومبيوتر من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wallace"
    title: "Bob Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wallace_(computer_scientist)"
    title: "Bob Wallace (computer scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wallace"
    title: "Bob Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92661"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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