# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-kottke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:43:20.509Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-kottke"
name: "Daniel Kottke"
slug: "daniel-kottke"
description: "Daniel Kottke is an American businessman known for having been a college friend of Steve Jobs and one of the first employees of Apple Inc. He met Jobs at Reed College in 1972, and they trekked together through India for spiritual enlightenment and to the All One Farm. In 1976, Kottke realized his interest in computers when Jobs hired him to assemble hobbyist computer projects and then to be a part-time employee at the newly founded Apple Computer. There, he debugged the Apple II family, prototyped the Apple III and Macintosh, and endured the IPO where Steve Wozniak assigned Kottke some of his own stock. He was portrayed in several films about Apple."
tagline: "American computer engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daniel_Kottke.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-04-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.361496000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/dkottke"
    handle:    "dkottke"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielkottke/"
    handle:    "danielkottke"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4125565/"
    handle:    "nm4125565"
sources:
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    title: "丹尼爾·卡特基"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kottke"
    title: "Daniel Kottke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kottke"
    title: "Daniel Kottke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kottke"
    title: "Daniel Kottke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kottke"
    title: "Daniel Kottke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kottke"
    title: "Daniel Kottke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B5%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Коттке, Дэниел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87"
    title: "டானியல் கொட்கே"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3014270"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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