# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-russell
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:28:29.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-russell"
name: "Steve Russell"
slug: "steve-russell"
description: "Stephen Russell, also nicknamed \"Slug\", is an American computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, well known for being the first widely distributed video game."
tagline: "American video game programmer and designer (born 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Russell_2011_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1937-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.33060266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 184
sources:
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    title: "史帝芬·羅素"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ستيف راسيل (مهندس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "استیو راسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell"
    title: "Steve Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell_(computer_scientist)"
    title: "Steve Russell (computer scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell"
    title: "Steve Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "استیو راسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell_(informaticien)"
    title: "Steve Russell (informaticien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell"
    title: "Steve Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB"
    title: "スティーブ・ラッセル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%ED%8B%B0%EB%B8%8C_%EB%9F%AC%EC%85%80"
    title: "스티브 러셀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell"
    title: "Steve Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell"
    title: "Steve Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell"
    title: "Steve Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell"
    title: "Steve Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell_(computer_scientist)"
    title: "Steve Russell (computer scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Russell"
    title: "Steve Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E5%B8%9D%E8%8A%AC%C2%B7%E7%BD%97%E7%B4%A0"
    title: "史帝芬·罗素"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2634274"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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