# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-tresham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:03:58.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-tresham"
name: "Francis Tresham"
slug: "francis-tresham"
description: "Francis Tresham was a British board game designer who produced board games since the early 1970s. Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil, a company well-known for its Civilization board game, until its sale to MicroProse in 1997. His 1829 game was the first of the 18xx board game series and some of his board games inspired Sid Meier computer games such as Railroad Tycoon."
tagline: "British board game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Tresham%2C_game_designer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1936"
deathDate: "2019-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.27
  momentum:             3.506401137980085
  historical:           5.005616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_G._Tresham"
    title: "Francis G. Tresham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tresham_(game_designer)"
    title: "Francis Tresham (game designer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tresham_(autore_di_giochi)"
    title: "Francis Tresham (autore di giochi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A0_(%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%87%E3%82%B6%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC)"
    title: "フランシス・トレシャム (ゲームデザイナー)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tresham_(spelkonstrukt%C3%B6r)"
    title: "Francis Tresham (spelkonstruktör)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q744619"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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