# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-salo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:14:55.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-salo"
name: "David Salo"
slug: "david-salo"
description: "David Salo is an American linguist who worked on the languages of J. R. R. Tolkien for the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, expanding the languages by building on vocabulary already known from published works, and defining some languages that previously had a very small published vocabulary."
tagline: "American linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Salo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.32
  momentum:             4.864864864864866
  historical:           6.612564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Salo"
    title: "David Salo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Salo"
    title: "David Salo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Salo"
    title: "David Salo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Salo"
    title: "David Salo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Salo"
    title: "David Salo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8C%B3%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8D%85%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8C%B3_%F0%90%8D%83%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%BB%F0%90%8D%89"
    title: "𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌳 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Salo"
    title: "David Salo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95110"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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