# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josh-sawyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:13:32.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josh-sawyer"
name: "Josh Sawyer"
slug: "josh-sawyer"
description: "Joshua Eric Sawyer, more commonly known and credited as Josh Sawyer, J.E. Sawyer, or JSawyer, is an American video game designer, known for his contributions to role-playing video games. Sawyer's work as a designer began with the Icewind Dale series in the early 2000s; he was later a project director on games like Fallout: New Vegas (2010), as well as Pillars of Eternity (2015) and its sequel, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (2018). Sawyer was also the game director and narrative director of Pentiment (2022), an adventure role-playing game. Since 2005, he has been employed by Obsidian Entertainment, where he holds the position of studio design director."
tagline: "American video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josh_Sawyer_removing_spokes_from_a_bicycle_wheel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1975-10-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.48
  momentum:             0.393154486586494
  historical:           14.17600933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/jesawyer"
    handle:    "jesawyer"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2090486/"
    handle:    "nm2090486"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0puMZicGwhpviA490Ho9Ws"
    handle:    "J.E. Sawyer"
sources:
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    title: "喬許·索耶"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوش سوير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Sawyer"
    title: "Josh Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_E._Sawyer"
    title: "Joshua E. Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Sawyer"
    title: "Josh Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Sawyer"
    title: "Josh Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Sawyer"
    title: "Josh Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Sawyer"
    title: "Josh Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Sawyer"
    title: "Josh Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "조시 소여"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сойер, Джош"
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    title: "Джош Соєр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5004959"
    title: "Josh Sawyer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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