# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-kajiya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:36:38.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-kajiya"
name: "Jim Kajiya"
slug: "jim-kajiya"
description: "James Kajiya is a pioneer in the field of computer graphics. He is perhaps best known for the development of the rendering equation."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Kajiya.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.675774666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A4"
    title: "ジム・カジヤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kajiya"
    title: "James Kajiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kajiya"
    title: "Jim Kajiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E5%8D%A1%E5%90%89%E9%9B%85"
    title: "吉姆·卡吉雅"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%90_%EC%B9%B4%EC%A7%80%EC%95%BC"
    title: "짐 카지야"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kajiya"
    title: "Jim Kajiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62915"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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