# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sandy-petersen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:18:56.017Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sandy-petersen"
name: "Sandy Petersen"
slug: "sandy-petersen"
description: "Carl Sanford Joslyn \"Sandy\" Petersen is an American game designer. He worked at Chaosium, contributing to the development of RuneQuest and creating the acclaimed and influential horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu. He later joined id Software where he worked on the development of the Doom franchise and Quake. As part of Ensemble Studios, Petersen subsequently contributed to the Age of Empires franchise."
tagline: "American game designer (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sandy_Petersen_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           66.72
  momentum:             15
  historical:           13.24634266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 4520
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/sandyofcthulhu"
    handle:    "sandyofcthulhu"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/sandy.petersen.108"
    handle:    "sandy.petersen.108"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0997733/"
    handle:    "nm0997733"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://petersengames.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxPdvDZS-IBI_t-FMzIb7IQ"
    handle:    "@petersengames"
    followers: 4520
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    title: "桑迪·皮特森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ساندي بيترسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sandy Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Petersen"
    title: "Sandy Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sandy Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Petersen"
    title: "Sandy Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sandy Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sandy Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sandy Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sandy Petersen"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2703640"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3186313"
    title: "Sandy Petersen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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