# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-fong
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:29:08.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-fong"
name: "Dennis Fong"
slug: "dennis-fong"
description: "Dennis Fong, better known by his online alias Thresh, is an American businessman and retired professional player of the first-person shooter video games Quake and Doom. He is a co-founder of Xfire, an instant messenger and social networking site for gamers, which was acquired by Viacom for US$102 million in April 2006. He also co-founded Lithium Technologies, a social customer relationship management (CRM) company. In his playing career his highest profile victory came in 1997 at the Red Annihilation Quake tournament, where he placed first and won id Software CEO John Carmack's Ferrari 328. Fong is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the first professional gamer."
tagline: "American businessperson"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dennis_Fong_at_QuakeCon_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1977-03-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.55
  momentum:             15.44871794871795
  historical:           10.34626266666667
  currentAttention:     2.76
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 247
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisfong/"
    handle:    "dennisfong"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E9%95%9B%E9%92%A6"
    title: "方镛钦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دنيس فونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "دنيس فونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong"
    title: "Dennis Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong"
    title: "Dennis Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong"
    title: "Dennis Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong"
    title: "Dennis Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong"
    title: "Dennis Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Фонг, Деннис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong"
    title: "Dennis Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong"
    title: "Dennis Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E9%8F%9E%E6%AC%BD"
    title: "方鏞欽"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1189122"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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