# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reiner-knizia
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:02:04.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reiner-knizia"
name: "Reiner Knizia"
slug: "reiner-knizia"
description: "Reiner Knizia is a German-style board game designer. He was born in West Germany and earned a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Ulm before designing games full-time. He is frequently included on lists of the greatest game designers of all time. Many of his hundreds of designs are considered modern classics, and many have won or been nominated for significant gaming awards, including the Spiel des Jahres and the Deutscher Spiele Preis. His notable designs include Amun-Re, Blue Moon City, Ingenious, Keltis, Lord of the Rings, Medici, Modern Art, Ra, Taj Mahal, Tigris and Euphrates, and Through the Desert. Many of his designs incorporate mathematical principles, such as his repeated use of auction mechanics."
tagline: "Board game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Essen08_-_Reiner_Knizia_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6449422946367958
  historical:           14.369344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.knizia.de"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ReinerKnizia"
    handle:    "ReinerKnizia"
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    title: "Райнер Кніціа"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump