# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-crowther
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:17:39.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-crowther"
name: "William Crowther"
slug: "william-crowther"
description: "William Crowther is an American computer programmer, caver, and rock climber. He is the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure from 1975 onward, a seminal computer game that influenced the first decade of video game design and inspired the text adventure game genre."
tagline: "Computer programmer and caver"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Will_Crowther_Fall_2012.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"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.06
  momentum:             1.048951048951049
  historical:           11.35756133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Вільям Краудер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B0%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليام كروذر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B0%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليام كروذر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther"
    title: "William Crowther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther_(Informatiker)"
    title: "William Crowther (Informatiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther_(programmer)"
    title: "William Crowther (programmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther"
    title: "William Crowther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther_(programmeur)"
    title: "William Crowther (programmeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC_(%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC)"
    title: "ウィリアム・クラウザー (プログラマー)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther"
    title: "William Crowther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther"
    title: "William Crowther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Краутер, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther"
    title: "William Crowther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1344970"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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