# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sid-meier
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:55:40.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sid-meier"
name: "Sid Meier"
slug: "sid-meier"
description: "Sidney K. Meier is an American businessman and computer programmer. A programmer, designer, and producer of many strategy and simulation video games, including the Civilization series, Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 with Bill Stealey and is the Director of Creative Development of Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996. For his contributions to the video game industry, Meier was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Canadian-American game programmer and designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sid_Meier_2015-02-25_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1954-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  238
  category: 225
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill