# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carol-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:42:04.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carol-shaw"
name: "Carol Shaw"
slug: "carol-shaw"
description: "Carol Shaw is an American video game designer and programmer. She is one of the earliest women to work as a programmer in the commercial video game industry. While at Atari, Inc. from 1978 to 1980, she designed Atari VCS titles including 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (1978) and Video Checkers (1980). She is best known for the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter River Raid (1982), published by Activision."
tagline: "American video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carol_Shaw_Holding_Gold_River_Raid_Cartridge.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.56
  momentum:             0.1337638376383764
  historical:           18.21242533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A1%E8%90%9D%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E8%82%96"
    title: "卡萝尔·肖"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%88"
    title: "كارول شو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%88"
    title: "كارول شو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BB_%CE%A3%CE%BF"
    title: "Κάρολ Σο"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "کارول شاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BA%90%EB%9F%B4_%EC%87%BC"
    title: "캐럴 쇼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Шоу, Кэрол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%A8%D0%BE"
    title: "Керол Шо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw"
    title: "Carol Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%83"
    title: "Керол Шоу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51741"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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