# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-mcnealy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:02:21.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-mcnealy"
name: "Scott McNealy"
slug: "scott-mcnealy"
description: "Scott G. McNealy is an American businessman. He is most famous for co-founding the computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. In 2004, while still at Sun, McNealy founded Curriki, a free online education service. In 2011, he co-founded Wayin, a social intelligence and visualization company based in Denver. McNealy stepped down from his position as CEO of Wayin in 2016."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ScottMcNealy_Cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1954-11-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.6565
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ScottMcNealy"
    handle:    "ScottMcNealy"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573829/"
    handle:    "nm0573829"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "سكوت ماكنيلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott McNealy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy"
    title: "Scott McNealy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "اسکات مک‌نیلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy"
    title: "Scott McNealy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy"
    title: "Scott McNealy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "スコット・マクネリ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "스콧 맥닐리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "സ്കോട്ട് മക്നീലി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy"
    title: "Scott McNealy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy"
    title: "Scott McNealy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy"
    title: "Scott McNealy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy"
    title: "Scott McNealy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%80%83%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E9%BA%A5%E5%85%8B%E9%87%8C%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "史考特·麥克里尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1668164"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1094045"
    title: "Scott McNealy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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