# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/noel-sharkey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:35:40.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/noel-sharkey"
name: "Noel Sharkey"
slug: "noel-sharkey"
description: "Noel Sharkey is a computer scientist born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is best known to the British public for his appearances on television as an expert on robotics; including the BBC Two television series Robot Wars and Techno Games, and co-hosting Bright Sparks for BBC Northern Ireland. He is emeritus professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield."
tagline: "British computer scientist and Robot Wars judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Noel_Sharkey_(9217099586).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-12-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.480886666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/NoelSharkey"
    handle:    "NoelSharkey"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Sharkey/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Sharkey"
    title: "Noel Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "نويل شاركى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Sharkey"
    title: "Noel Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Sharkey"
    title: "Noel Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Sharkey"
    title: "Noel Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93089"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1655924"
    title: "Noel Sharkey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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