# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-lantinga
# Generated: 2026-08-31T11:50:26.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-lantinga"
name: "Sam Lantinga"
slug: "sam-lantinga"
description: "Sam Oscar Lantinga is a computer programmer. He used to be the lead software engineer at Blizzard Entertainment, where he was known to the community as Slouken. He is best known as the creator of the Simple DirectMedia Layer, a very popular open source multimedia programming library, and also developed the compatibility database for Executor, a proprietary Mac OS emulator."
tagline: "American video game programmer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.85
  momentum:             12.29295133289062
  historical:           8.088266666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 506
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/slouken"
    handle:    "slouken"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-lantinga-02771b10/"
    handle:    "sam-lantinga-02771b10"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/slouken"
    handle:    "slouken"
    followers: 506
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E5%85%B0%E8%BF%AA%E5%8A%A0"
    title: "山姆·兰迪加"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga"
    title: "Sam Lantinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga"
    title: "Sam Lantinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga"
    title: "Sam Lantinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga"
    title: "Sam Lantinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga"
    title: "Sam Lantinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga"
    title: "Sam Lantinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga"
    title: "Sam Lantinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga"
    title: "Sam Lantinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93064"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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