# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-romero
# Generated: 2026-09-02T04:19:53.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-romero"
name: "John Romero"
slug: "john-romero"
description: "Alfonso John Romero is an American and Irish video game developer. He co-founded id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Doom II (1994), Hexen (1995) and Quake (1996). His designs and development tools, along with programming techniques developed by the id programmer John Carmack, popularized the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Romero is also credited with coining the multiplayer term \"deathmatch\"."
tagline: "American video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Romero_-_GDC_2022_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1967-10-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           73.18
  momentum:             2.284706370616311
  historical:           23.58581333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 43
totalFollowers: 58800
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/romero"
    handle:    "romero"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/theromero"
    handle:    "theromero"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0739450/"
    handle:    "nm0739450"
  - platform:  "TWITCH"
    url:       "https://www.twitch.tv/theromero"
    handle:    "theromero"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://rome.ro"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtN2A8bFL_NoxClFyklbMRQ"
    handle:    "@romero666"
    followers: 58800
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "جون روميرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джон Ромеро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Romero"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Romero"
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    title: "John Romero"
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    title: "존 로메로"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Romero"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero"
    title: "John Romero"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero"
    title: "John Romero"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero"
    title: "John Romero"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ромеро, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "John Romero"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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