# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-carmack
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:56:42.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-carmack"
name: "John Carmack"
slug: "john-carmack"
description: "John D. Carmack II is an American computer programmer and video game developer. He co-founded the video game company id Software and was the lead programmer of its 1990s games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and their sequels. Carmack made innovations in 3D computer graphics, such as his Carmack's Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes."
tagline: "American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Carmack_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1970-08-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           69.69
  momentum:             1.557973089240207
  historical:           24.20159733333334
  currentAttention:     11.24
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  230
  category: 20
totalFollowers: 4720
platforms:
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    handle:    "ID_AA_Carmack"
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    handle:    "@johncarmack3131"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill