# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sandy-douglas
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:10:24.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sandy-douglas"
name: "Sandy Douglas"
slug: "sandy-douglas"
description: "Alexander Shafto \"Sandy\" Douglas was a British programmer and computer science professor. He is credited with creating the first graphical computer game, OXO, a version of noughts and crosses, in 1952 on the EDSAC computer at University of Cambridge."
tagline: "British professor of computer science"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1921-05-21"
deathDate: "2010-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.44
  momentum:             17.21902017291066
  historical:           8.081930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%96_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Сенді Дуглас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ساندى دوجلاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_%C5%9Eafto_Duqlas"
    title: "Aleksandr Şafto Duqlas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Douglas"
    title: "Sandy Douglas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sandy_Douglas"
    title: "Alexander Sandy Douglas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%83%8C%EB%94%94_%EB%8D%94%EA%B8%80%EB%9F%AC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "샌디 더글러스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Douglas"
    title: "Sandy Douglas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_S._Douglas"
    title: "Alexander S. Douglas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_S._Douglas"
    title: "Alexander S. Douglas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7417239"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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