# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-oates
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:15:46.198Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-oates"
name: "George Oates"
slug: "george-oates"
description: "George Oates is an Australian-born designer and entrepreneur, best known for being the first designer of the photo-sharing website Flickr and for creating the Flickr Commons program. Since 2007 she has worked in the cultural heritage sector and is regarded as \"increasingly a go-to expert on digital archives\". She has also written a book called If Only The Grimms Had Known Alice, a retelling of the Grimm brothers' fairy tales to include female characters."
tagline: "Australian designer and entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Oates_at_EuropeanaTech_2015.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1973-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.402916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ukglo"
    handle:    "ukglo"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://abitofgeorge.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "جورج أوتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Oates"
    title: "George Oates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%9C_%E0%A8%93%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%B8"
    title: "ਜਾਰਜ ਓਟਸ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%B9%D8%B3"
    title: "جارج اوٹس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%93%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "జార్జ్ ఓట్స్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23415483"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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