# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/col-needham
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:57:19.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/col-needham"
name: "Col Needham"
slug: "col-needham"
description: "Colin Needham is an English computer scientist who founded the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). He was its chief executive officer from its creation in 1990 until 2025, when he stepped down and instead took a role as its executive chairman."
tagline: "English entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Col_Needham.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1967-01-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.54
  momentum:             0.1510067114093959
  historical:           10.94784666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1000000/"
    handle:    "nm1000000"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC"
    title: "Кол Нідем"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "كول نيدام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham"
    title: "Col Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham"
    title: "Col Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham"
    title: "Col Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%85"
    title: "کالین نیدهم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham"
    title: "Col Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham"
    title: "Col Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham"
    title: "Col Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham"
    title: "Col Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham"
    title: "Col Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham"
    title: "Col Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918687"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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