# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-shell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:00:59.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-shell"
name: "Tim Shell"
slug: "tim-shell"
description: "Bomis, Inc. was an American dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. By 2007, the company was inactive, with its Wikipedia-related resources transferred to the Wikimedia Foundation."
tagline: "American businessperson"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tim_Shell_Wikimedia_cropped_to_bust.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1968-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.206084000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Shell"
    title: "Tim Shell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "تيم شيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "تيم شيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Shell"
    title: "Tim Shell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Shell"
    title: "Tim Shell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%9C"
    title: "טים של"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Shell"
    title: "Tim Shell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ティム・シェル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2920243"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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