# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-oberheim
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:00:20.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-oberheim"
name: "Tom Oberheim"
slug: "tom-oberheim"
description: "Thomas Elroy Oberheim is an American audio engineer and electronics engineer best known for designing effects processors, analog synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. He has been the founder of four audio electronics companies, most notably Oberheim Electronics. He was also a key figure in the development and adoption of the MIDI standard. He is also a trained physicist."
tagline: "American musical instrument inventor (born 1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Oberheim.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-07-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.498490666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://tomoberheim.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Oberheim"
    title: "Tom Oberheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Oberheim"
    title: "Tom Oberheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Oberheim"
    title: "Tom Oberheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Oberheim"
    title: "Tom Oberheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0"
    title: "トーマス・エルロイ・オーバーハイム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Oberheim"
    title: "Tom Oberheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3530826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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