# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-knoll
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:11:58.460Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-knoll"
name: "Thomas Knoll"
slug: "thomas-knoll"
description: "Thomas Knoll is an American software engineer who created Adobe Photoshop. He initiated the development of image processing routines in 1988.\nAfter Knoll created the first core routines, he showed them to his brother, John Knoll, who worked at Industrial Light and Magic. John liked what he saw, suggested new features, and encouraged Tom to bundle them into a package with a graphical user interface. In 1988, John sold the distribution license for Photoshop to Adobe Systems and later on March 31, 1995, he sold the rights to the program to Adobe for $34.5 million."
tagline: "American software engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1960-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 211
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump