# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nolan-bushnell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:35:18.597Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/nolan-bushnell"
name: "Nolan Bushnell"
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description: "Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc., and the Chuck E. Cheese chain. He has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News \"Innovator of the Year\" award and was named one of Newsweek's \"50 Men Who Changed America\". He has started more than 20 companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is on the board of Anti-Aging Games. In 2012, he founded an educational software company called Brainrush that uses video game technology in educational software."
tagline: "American entrepreneur"
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birthDate: "1943-02-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump