# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-wozniak
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:29:15.886Z

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description: "He built the machines that made personal computing possible. While Steve Jobs shaped Apple's image, Wozniak engineered the Apple I and Apple II — the circuits and code that turned a hobbyist dream into something you could actually buy and use at home."
tagline: "American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc."
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birthDate: "1950-08-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born August 11, 1950, Stephen Gary Wozniak came up as an electrical engineer and programmer before co-founding Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1976. He developed the Apple I in 1975 and designed the Apple II, introduced in 1977 — one of the first mass-produced microcomputers that actually worked for ordinary people. He helped shape early Macintosh concepts from 1979 to 1981 alongside Jef Raskin, until a plane accident pulled him away and Jobs took over the project. After leaving Apple permanently in 1985, he founded CL 9 and released the first programmable universal remote in 1987, then spent decades funding tech education — including a 1990 push to get computers into Soviet schools. Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2000, he's stayed on Apple's payroll in ceremonial form while backing ventures in GPS, flash memory, satellites, and education.