# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-fetter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:29:50.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-fetter"
name: "William Fetter"
slug: "william-fetter"
description: "William Fetter, also known as William Allan Fetter or Bill Fetter, was an American graphic designer and pioneer in the field of computer graphics. He explored the perspective fundamentals of computer animation of a human figure from 1960 on and was the first to create a human figure as a 3D model. The First Man was a pilot in a short 1964 computer animation, also known as Boeing Man and now as Boeman by the Boeing company. Fetter preferred the term \"Human Figure\" for the pilot. In 1960, working in a team supervised by Verne Hudson, he helped coin the term Computer graphics. He was art director at the Boeing Company in Wichita."
tagline: "American computer graphics art director (1928–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Alan_Fetter_1963.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: "1928-03-14"
deathDate: "2002-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.75
  momentum:             12.54545454545454
  historical:           5.677250666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Fetter"
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    title: "ويليام فيتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%DB%8E%D8%AA%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "ویلیام فێتەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fetter"
    title: "William Fetter"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fetter"
    title: "William Fetter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fetter"
    title: "William Fetter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5729349"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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