# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-h-ahl
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:50:40.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-h-ahl"
name: "David H. Ahl"
slug: "david-h-ahl"
description: "David H. Ahl is an American author who is the founder of Creative Computing magazine. He is also the author of many how-to books, including BASIC Computer Games, the first computer book to sell more than a million copies."
tagline: "Magazine founder"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Ahl_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-05-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.145501333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Девід Г. Ал"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David H. Ahl"
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    title: "David H. Ahl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David H. Ahl"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Ahl"
    title: "David H. Ahl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David H. Ahl"
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    title: "Ал, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David H. Ahl"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump