# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-braben
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:44.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-braben"
name: "David Braben"
slug: "david-braben"
description: "David John Braben is an English video game developer and designer, founder and President of Frontier Developments, and co-creator of the Elite series of space trading video games, first published in 1984. He is also a co-founder of and works as a trustee for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which in 2012 launched a low-cost computer for education."
tagline: "British computer programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Braben_GDCA_2015_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1964-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.08262
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/davidbraben"
    handle:    "davidbraben"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%B4%E7%BB%B4%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E6%8B%89%E6%9C%AC"
    title: "戴维·布拉本"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "ديفيد برابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "ديفيد برابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben"
    title: "David Braben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben"
    title: "David Braben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben"
    title: "David Braben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "دیوید برابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben"
    title: "David Braben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben"
    title: "David Braben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben"
    title: "David Braben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben"
    title: "David Braben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Брэбен, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejvid_Brejben"
    title: "Dejvid Brejben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben"
    title: "David Braben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173809"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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