# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-p-thacker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:06:05.749Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-p-thacker"
name: "Charles P. Thacker"
slug: "charles-p-thacker"
description: "Charles Patrick \"Chuck\" Thacker was an American pioneer computer designer. He designed the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven graphical user interface (GUI). In 2009, he won the ACM Turing Award."
tagline: "American computer pioneer (1943–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chuckthacker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1943-02-26"
deathDate: "2017-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump