# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-tobias
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:24.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-tobias"
name: "John Tobias"
slug: "john-tobias"
description: "John Tobias is an American comic book artist, graphic designer, video game designer, and writer. Tobias is best known for co-creating the Mortal Kombat series along with Ed Boon, to whom he pitched the game concept."
tagline: "American artist and video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Tobias.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.20800933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/therealsaibot"
    handle:    "therealsaibot"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864880/"
    handle:    "nm0864880"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mortalkombat.com/"
sources:
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    title: "John Tobias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Tobias"
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    title: "John Tobias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ջոն Թոբիաս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Tobias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tobias"
    title: "John Tobias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Tobias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tobias"
    title: "John Tobias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тобиас, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Tobias"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "John Tobias"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump