# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-cecil
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:38:00.711Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-cecil"
name: "Charles Cecil"
slug: "charles-cecil"
description: "Charles Cecil is a British video game designer and co-founder of Revolution Software. His family lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was still very young, but was evacuated two years after Mobutu Sese Seko's coup d'état. He studied at Bedales School in Hampshire, England. In 1980 he began his studies in Engineering Manufacture and Management at the University of Manchester, where he met student Richard Turner who invited him to write text adventures for Artic Computing. After completing his degree in 1985 he decided to continue his career in game development and became director of Artic. The following year he established Paragon Programming, a game development company working with British publisher U.S. Gold. In 1987 he moved into publishing as a software development manager for U.S. Gold. A year later he was approached by Activision and was offered the position of manager of their European development studio."
tagline: "British video game designer and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_cecil.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-08-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.87
  momentum:             1.745454545454545
  historical:           8.773689333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0147684/"
    handle:    "nm0147684"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cecil"
    title: "Charles Cecil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "تشارلز سيسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cecil"
    title: "Charles Cecil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cecil_(Spieleentwickler)"
    title: "Charles Cecil (Spieleentwickler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cecil"
    title: "Charles Cecil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cecil"
    title: "Charles Cecil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cecil"
    title: "Charles Cecil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cecil"
    title: "Charles Cecil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cecil"
    title: "Charles Cecil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B7"
    title: "Сесил, Чарлз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983594"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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