# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-fountain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:33:01.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-fountain"
name: "Robert Fountain"
slug: "robert-fountain"
description: "Robert Fountain is a British mental calculator. He won the first Mental Calculation World Cup in 2004 and the second Mental Calculation World Cup in 2006. In 1999 he was recognised by the Mind Sports Organisation as the first Grandmaster of Mental Calculation. Fountain was inspired to take up mental calculation as a hobby at the age of 11 after seeing Wim Klein performing on television. He is co-author of The Mental Calculator's Handbook."
tagline: "British mental calculator"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.14
  momentum:             5.204878048780488
  historical:           6.337113333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Фонтейн, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روبرت فاونتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "রবার্ট ফাউন্টেন (মানসিক গণনাকারী)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Fountain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fountain_(mental_calculator)"
    title: "Robert Fountain (mental calculator)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fountain"
    title: "Robert Fountain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fountain"
    title: "Robert Fountain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7344461"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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