# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-uelmen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:20.885Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-uelmen"
name: "Matt Uelmen"
slug: "matt-uelmen"
description: "Matt Uelmen is an American video game music composer and sound designer. He is best known for his work in Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo series, which was recognized with the inaugural Excellence in Audio award by the IGDA in 2001. He also worked as a sound designer for the real-time strategy game StarCraft, and worked on World of Warcraft's expansion The Burning Crusade in 2007. From 2009 until the studio's closure in 2017, Matt Uelmen worked as a member of the Runic Games team, as a composer and sound designer for the Torchlight games."
tagline: "American video game composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matt_Uelmen_Guitar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1973-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.11
  momentum:             5.625
  historical:           9.253424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 244
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tunes/"
    handle:    "tunes"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1133394/"
    handle:    "nm1133394"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0SpUOAVh9SJwJ7GNRPXqsI"
    handle:    "0SpUOAVh9SJwJ7GNRPXqsI"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/368567"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مات ويلمين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Uelmen"
    title: "Matt Uelmen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Uelmen"
    title: "Matt Uelmen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Uelmen"
    title: "Matt Uelmen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Uelmen"
    title: "Matt Uelmen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Uelmen"
    title: "Matt Uelmen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Uelmen"
    title: "Matt Uelmen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Uelmen"
    title: "Matt Uelmen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Оулмен, Мэтт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/79dc561a-5e4f-459d-804a-13b7fc0e303b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2415434"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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