# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/li-chen-wang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:47:08.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/li-chen-wang"
name: "Li-Chen Wang"
slug: "li-chen-wang"
description: "Li-Chen Wang is an American computer engineer, best known for his Palo Alto Tiny BASIC for Intel 8080-based microcomputers. He was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club and made significant contributions to the software for early microcomputer systems from Tandy Corporation and Cromemco. He made early use of the word copyleft, in Palo Alto Tiny BASIC's distribution notice \"@COPYLEFT ALL WRONGS RESERVED\" in June 1976."
tagline: "American computer programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Li-Chen_Wang_(2001).jpg?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: "1935"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.137941333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%8B%E7%90%86%E7%91%B1"
    title: "王理瑱"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Chen_Wang"
    title: "Li-Chen Wang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Chen_Wang"
    title: "Li-Chen Wang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Chen_Wang"
    title: "Li-Chen Wang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Chen_Wang"
    title: "Li-Chen Wang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%8B%E7%90%86%E7%91%B1"
    title: "王理瑱"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Chen_Wang"
    title: "Li-Chen Wang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3831488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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