# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/minh-le
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:32:59.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/minh-le"
name: "Minh Le"
slug: "minh-le"
description: "Minh Le, also known by his online nickname Gooseman, is a Vietnamese-Canadian video game programmer who co-created the Half-Life mod Counter-Strike with Jess Cliffe in 1999 and started the Counter-Strike series. He was later employed by Valve, the developers of Half-Life, and worked for 8 years in Korea on the multiplayer first-person shooter Tactical Intervention. He is a contractor on the multiplayer survival first-person shooter Rust. In the small-team games that he has worked on, Le has been a programmer, modeler, and designer."
tagline: "Vietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who created the mod ''Counter-Strike''"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Minh_Le_in_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1977-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.45
  momentum:             9.990749306197964
  historical:           14.382808
  currentAttention:     55.50416281221092
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/GoosemanCS"
    handle:    "GoosemanCS"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%8E%E6%98%8E_(%E9%81%8A%E6%88%B2%E9%96%8B%E7%99%BC%E8%80%85)"
    title: "黎明 (遊戲開發者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87_%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "مينه لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87_%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "مينه لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le"
    title: "Minh Le"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le"
    title: "Minh Le"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le"
    title: "Minh Le"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le"
    title: "Minh Le"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le"
    title: "Minh Le"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ミン・リー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%BC_%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "민 리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le"
    title: "Minh Le"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le"
    title: "Minh Le"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le"
    title: "Minh Le"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Ле, Минь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le"
    title: "Minh Le"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%9B%D0%B5"
    title: "Мінь Ле"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AA_Minh_(nh%C3%A0_s%E1%BA%A3n_xu%E1%BA%A5t_tr%C3%B2_ch%C6%A1i_m%C3%A1y_t%C3%ADnh)"
    title: "Lê Minh (nhà sản xuất trò chơi máy tính)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1208777"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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