# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-o-rear
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:44.171Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-o-rear"
name: "Charles O'Rear"
slug: "charles-o-rear"
description: "Charles O'Rear is an American photographer and author, known for photographing Bliss, the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, and for being a National Geographic photographer from 1971 to 1995."
tagline: "American photographer and author (born 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_O'Rear%2C_full_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1941-11-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.4
  momentum:             3.022562792677735
  historical:           14.24345733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://charlesorear.photoshelter.com/"
sources:
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    title: "查爾斯·歐里爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز أورير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز اورير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Charles O'Rear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O'Rear"
    title: "Charles O'Rear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O'Rear"
    title: "Charles O'Rear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "چارلز اورییر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O'Rear"
    title: "Charles O'Rear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O'Rear"
    title: "Charles O'Rear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2"
    title: "チャールズ・オレア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "찰스 오리어"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O'Rear"
    title: "Charles O'Rear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O%E2%80%99Rear"
    title: "Charles O’Rear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O'Rear"
    title: "Charles O'Rear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%E2%80%99%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%8D%D1%80%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7"
    title: "О’Риэр, Чарльз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Charles O'Rear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3302149"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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