# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-sito
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:13:22.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-sito"
name: "Tom Sito"
slug: "tom-sito"
description: "Tom Sito is an American animator, animation historian and teacher. He is currently a professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts in the Animation Division.\nIn 1998, Sito was included by Animation Magazine in their list of the One Hundred Most Important People in Animation."
tagline: "American animator (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/9.16.13TomSitoByLuigiNovi1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.61
  momentum:             0.372670807453416
  historical:           6.362745333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004552/"
    handle:    "nm0004552"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tomsito.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sito"
    title: "Tom Sito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "توم سيتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sito"
    title: "Tom Sito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "تام سیتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sito"
    title: "Tom Sito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sito"
    title: "Tom Sito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7817597"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1246818"
    title: "Tom Sito"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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