# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-lake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:05:12.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-lake"
name: "Sam Lake"
slug: "sam-lake"
description: "Sami Antero Järvi, better known by his pen name Sam Lake, is a Finnish video game writer and director. He is the creative director at Remedy Entertainment, known for his writing on the popular Max Payne video game series, and Alan Wake."
tagline: "Finnish video game writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Lake-MichaelF%C3%B6rtsch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-03-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9594642948423044
  historical:           18.23850666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/SamLakeRMD"
    handle:    "SamLakeRMD"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1053843/"
    handle:    "nm1053843"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.samlake.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lake"
    title: "Sam Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lake"
    title: "Sam Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lake"
    title: "Sam Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сэм Лейк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lake"
    title: "Sam Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA"
    title: "Сем Лейк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Lake"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump