# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-sims
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:04.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-sims"
name: "Tom Sims"
slug: "tom-sims"
description: "Tom Sims was an American athlete, inventor, and entrepreneur. Sims was World Snowboarding Champion (1983), World Champion Skateboarder (1975), and founder of SIMS Snowboards and SIMS Skateboards. He lived in Santa Barbara, California, from 1971 until his death."
tagline: "American snowboarder (1950–2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1950-12-06"
deathDate: "2012-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.46
  momentum:             4.117647058823529
  historical:           7.017568
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sims"
    title: "Tom Sims"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "توم سيمز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "توم سيمز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sims"
    title: "Tom Sims"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sims"
    title: "Tom Sims"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sims_(snowboard)"
    title: "Tom Sims (snowboard)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sims"
    title: "Tom Sims"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sims"
    title: "Tom Sims"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2745289"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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