# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jonathan-gay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:51:43.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jonathan-gay"
name: "Jonathan Gay"
slug: "jonathan-gay"
description: "Jonathan Gay is an American computer programmer and software entrepreneur based in Northern California. Gay co-founded FutureWave Software in 1993. For a decade, he was the main programmer and visionary of Flash, an animation editor for web pages. He founded Software as Art, which was later renamed Greenbox, which made energy management solutions for the home."
tagline: "American computer programmer"
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"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.95
  momentum:             1.682242990654206
  historical:           5.482038666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay"
    title: "Jonathan Gay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "جوناثان جاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay"
    title: "Jonathan Gay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%98"
    title: "Џонатан Геј"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay"
    title: "Jonathan Gay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay"
    title: "Jonathan Gay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6273180"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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