# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-priestley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:32:16.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-priestley"
name: "Rick Priestley"
slug: "rick-priestley"
description: "Richard \"Rick\" Priestley is an English miniature wargame designer and writer. He co-created the miniature wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle and its science fiction counterpart Warhammer 40,000 during his tenure at Games Workshop in the 1980s and 1990s. Following his time at Games Workshop, he went on to establish Warlord Games and co-create other titles such as Bolt Action."
tagline: "English miniature wargame designer and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_Priestley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1959-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.29
  momentum:             4.919378481383759
  historical:           5.849870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Rick Priestley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Priestley"
    title: "Rick Priestley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Priestley"
    title: "Rick Priestley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Пристли, Рик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Priestley"
    title: "Rick Priestley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Priestley"
    title: "Rick Priestley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1635546"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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