# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-lawson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:55:14.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-lawson"
name: "Jerry Lawson"
slug: "jerry-lawson"
description: "Gerald Anderson Lawson was an American electronic engineer. Besides being one of the first African-American computer engineers in Silicon Valley, Lawson was also known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console, leading the team that refined ROM cartridges for durable use as commercial video game cartridges. His innovations in this area led to him being considered the father of the game cartridge. He eventually left Fairchild and founded the game company Video-Soft."
tagline: "American video game developer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1c/Jerry_lawson_ca_1980.png/330px-Jerry_lawson_ca_1980.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-12-01"
deathDate: "2011-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.10476533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jerry Lawson"
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    title: "Jerry Lawson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump