# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/burrell-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:54:07.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/burrell-smith"
name: "Burrell Smith"
slug: "burrell-smith"
description: "Burrell Carver Smith is a retired American computer engineer who created the first wire wrap prototype of the motherboard for the original Macintosh at Apple Computer. He became Apple employee #282 in February 1979 as an Apple II service technician. He designed the motherboard for Apple's LaserWriter."
tagline: "American computer engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1955-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.626856
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "伯勒尔·史密斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوريل سميث"
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    title: "Burrell Smith"
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    title: "Burrell Smith"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrell_Smith"
    title: "Burrell Smith"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrell_Smith"
    title: "Burrell Smith"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrell_Smith"
    title: "Burrell Smith"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrell_Smith"
    title: "Burrell Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Burrell Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Смит, Баррелл"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump