# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-simonyi
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:09:42.329Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-simonyi"
name: "Charles Simonyi"
slug: "charles-simonyi"
description: "Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American software architect, businessman, and space tourist. He led the development of Microsoft's first application software, including early versions of Microsoft Office, and later co-founded Intentional Software, a company focused on his concept of intentional programming. A former researcher at Xerox PARC, he helped pioneer graphical user interfaces and introduced object-oriented programming and Hungarian notation to Microsoft. Simonyi flew to space twice as a private citizen, becoming the fifth space tourist and the only one to pay for two separate trips to the International Space Station. As of January 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$7.5 billion."
tagline: "Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_simonyi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.63
  historical:           22.140308
  currentAttention:     3.071428571428572
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0800816"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill