# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-livingstone
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:11:03.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-livingstone"
name: "Ian Livingstone"
slug: "ian-livingstone"
description: "Sir Ian Livingstone is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. He co-founded Games Workshop in 1975 and helped create Eidos Interactive as executive chairman of Eidos Plc in 1995. Along with Steve Jackson, he is also the co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy series of role-playing gamebooks, and the author of many books within that series."
tagline: "Fantasy writer and entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Livingstone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1949-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump