# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-abbott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:46:41.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-abbott"
name: "Robert Abbott"
slug: "robert-abbott"
description: "Robert Abbott was an American game inventor, sometimes referred to by fans as \"The Official Grand Old Man of Card Games\". Though early in his life he worked as a computer programmer with the IBM 360 assembly language, he began designing games in the 1950s."
tagline: "Game inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Abbott.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1933-03-02"
deathDate: "2018-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.344385333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Abbott"
    title: "Robert Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Abbott"
    title: "Robert Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Abbott"
    title: "Robert Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Abbott_(game_designer)"
    title: "Robert Abbott (game designer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Abbott"
    title: "Robert Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Abbott"
    title: "Robert Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Abbott_(game_designer)"
    title: "Robert Abbott (game designer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1395496"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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