# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-don-estridge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:57:33.493Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-don-estridge"
name: "Philip Don Estridge"
slug: "philip-don-estridge"
description: "Philip Donald Estridge, known as Don Estridge, was an American computer engineer who led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and thus is known as the \"father of the IBM PC\". He opened its specifications, which revolutionized the computer industry, resulting in a vast increase in sales of personal computers and creating an entire industry of hardware compatible PCs."
tagline: "Father of the IBM PC (1937–1985)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/DonEstridge.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1937-06-23"
deathDate: "1985-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.68
  momentum:             0.9144111192392099
  historical:           7.920378666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BF"
    title: "Эстридж, Филипп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Donald_Estridge"
    title: "Philip Donald Estridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Don_Estridge"
    title: "Philip Don Estridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Don_Estridge"
    title: "Philip Don Estridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Donald_Estridge"
    title: "Philip Donald Estridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Donald_Estridge"
    title: "Philip Donald Estridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Donald_Estridge"
    title: "Philip Donald Estridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8"
    title: "フィリップ・ドナルド・エストリッジ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Donald_Estridge"
    title: "Philip Donald Estridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712551"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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