# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-hoefler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:20:16.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-hoefler"
name: "Don Hoefler"
slug: "don-hoefler"
description: "Donald C. Hoefler was an American journalist, best known for using the term \"Silicon Valley\" for the first time in a news story. His friend Ralph Vaerst suggested the term for a series of articles entitled \"Silicon Valley, USA\" in the weekly trade newspaper Electronic News, starting on January 11, 1971."
tagline: "American journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1922-10-03"
deathDate: "1986-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.94
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           6.341361333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Дон Гефлер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "دون هوفلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "دون هوفلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_C._Hoefler"
    title: "Don C. Hoefler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hoefler"
    title: "Don Hoefler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hoefler"
    title: "Don Hoefler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Дон Хофлер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1238997"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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