# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-tramiel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:34:47.164Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-tramiel"
name: "Jack Tramiel"
slug: "jack-tramiel"
description: "Jack Tramiel was a Polish-American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International. The PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 are some home computers produced while he was running the company. Tramiel later formed Atari Corporation after he purchased the remnants of the original Atari, Inc. from its parent company. He was one of six people spotlighted when the computer was denoted \"Machine of the Year\" by Time magazine in 1982."
tagline: "American businessman (1928-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jack_Tramiel_retuschiert.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1928-12-13"
deathDate: "2012-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1716738197424893
  historical:           21.2133
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump