# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-arnold
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:24:24.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-arnold"
name: "Ken Arnold"
slug: "ken-arnold"
description: "Kenneth Cutts Richard Cabot Arnold is an American computer programmer well known as one of the developers of the 1980s dungeon-crawling video game Rogue, for his contributions to the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) version of Unix, for his books and articles about C and C++, e.g., his 1980s–1990s UNIX Review column, \"The C Advisor\", and his high-profile work on the Java platform."
tagline: "American computer programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken_Arnold_-_25_december_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1958-06-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.281750666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "کن آرنولد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Arnold"
    title: "Ken Arnold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Arnold"
    title: "Ken Arnold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Arnold"
    title: "Ken Arnold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Arnold"
    title: "Ken Arnold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89"
    title: "ケン・アーノルド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6387255"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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