# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-plummer-q99500578
# Generated: 2026-08-31T12:55:54.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-plummer-q99500578"
name: "David Plummer"
slug: "david-plummer-q99500578"
description: "David William Plummer is a Canadian-American programmer and entrepreneur. He created the Task Manager for Windows, the Space Cadet Pinball ports to Windows NT, Zip file support for Windows, HyperCache for the Amiga and many other software products. He has been issued six patents in the software engineering space. He is known for his YouTube channels, Dave's Garage and Dave's Attic."
tagline: "Canadian-American programmer and entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Plummer-2023_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1968-08-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           71.92
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.393242666666668
  currentAttention:     81.81818181818181
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  122
  category: 9
totalFollowers: 1143179
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/davepl1968"
    handle:    "davepl1968"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw"
    handle:    "@davesgarage"
    followers: 1140000
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/davepl"
    handle:    "davepl"
    followers: 3179
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC"
    title: "デヴィッド・プラマー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer"
    title: "Dave Plummer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer"
    title: "Dave Plummer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer"
    title: "Dave Plummer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer"
    title: "Dave Plummer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer"
    title: "Dave Plummer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99500578"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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