# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-silverman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:34.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-silverman"
name: "Ken Silverman"
slug: "ken-silverman"
description: "Ken Silverman is an American game programmer, best known for writing the Build engine. It was most notably utilized by Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, and more than a dozen other games in the mid- to late-1990s."
tagline: "American game programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken_Silverman_-_American_Computer_programmer_in_2021.png?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: "1975-11-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.33
  momentum:             0.3529411764705883
  historical:           9.193597333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 86
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://advsys.net/ken/"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/Awesoken2"
    handle:    "Awesoken2"
    followers: 86
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Кен Сільверман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كين سيلفرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman"
    title: "Ken Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman"
    title: "Ken Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman"
    title: "Ken Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman"
    title: "Ken Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman"
    title: "Ken Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman"
    title: "Ken Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Сильверман, Кен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman"
    title: "Ken Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2278380"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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