# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-geschke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:00.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-geschke"
name: "Charles Geschke"
slug: "charles-geschke"
description: "Charles Matthew \"Chuck\" Geschke was an American businessman and computer scientist best known for founding the graphics and publishing software company Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982, with whom he also co-created the PDF document format."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Geschke_photo.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1939-09-11"
deathDate: "2021-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             5.330812854442344
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 250
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump