# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hobart-alter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:30:41.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hobart-alter"
name: "Hobart Alter"
slug: "hobart-alter"
description: "Hobart \"Hobie\" Laidlaw Alter was an American surf and sailing entrepreneur and pioneer, creator of the Hobie Cat catamarans, and founder of the Hobie company. He created the Hobie 33 ultralight-displacement sailboat and a mass-produced radio-controlled glider, the Hobie Hawk."
tagline: "American businessman (1933-2014)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Hobie_Alter.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1933-10-31"
deathDate: "2014-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.62
  momentum:             1.01644245142003
  historical:           8.093198666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "霍巴特·奥尔特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "هوبارت التر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Alter"
    title: "Hobart Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Alter"
    title: "Hobart Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Alter"
    title: "Hobart Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Alter"
    title: "Hobart Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ホバート・アルター"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Alter"
    title: "Hobart Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Alter"
    title: "Hobart Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264362"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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