# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-tatham
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:25:49.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-tatham"
name: "Simon Tatham"
slug: "simon-tatham"
description: "Simon Tatham is a British software engineer and free-software author. He is the original author and principal maintainer of PuTTY, a free implementation of SSH, Telnet, and terminal-emulation software for Windows and Unix-like systems. He was also one of the original developers of the Netwide Assembler (NASM) and is the maintainer of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection, a set of single-player puzzle games designed to run on multiple platforms."
tagline: "English programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Tatham_in_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1977-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.007347538574577516
  historical:           10.71569866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 226
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon Tatham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Tatham"
    title: "Simon Tatham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85"
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    title: "Simon Tatham"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Tatham"
    title: "Simon Tatham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тэтхем, Саймон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump