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Markus Persson
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Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
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Markus Persson, known by the pseudonym "Notch," is a figure whose professional work period began in 2009. He was born on 1979-06-01. His social media presence includes 3,856,925 followers.
Persson is listed as an author on Open Library, with a work count of 1, under the name PERSSON,MARKUS ALEXEJ/BERGENSTEN,JENS. Crossref records indicate he has 5 works. On Last.fm, his profile shows 36 listeners and a playcount of 124.
He has been referenced by 160 other encyclopedia articles. Wikiquote attributes two statements to him, including one describing "Mansplaining" as a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming.
Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexej
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Stockholm
- Occupation
- game programmer
- Political party
- Pirate Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Swedish
- Religion
- atheism
- Notable work
- Minecraft
- Field of work
- game programmer
- Image
- Notch receives the Pioneer Award at GDC 2016 (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Beverly Hills
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- pseudonym
- Notch
- Commons category
- Markus Persson
- date of birth
- 1979-06-01
- name in native language
- Markus Persson
- birth name
- Markus Alexej Persson
- name in kana
- マルクス・アレクセイ・パーョン
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- social media followers
- 4
- topic's main category
- Category:Markus Persson
- start of work period
- 2009-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Markus Alexej Persson (/ˈpɪərsən/ PEER-sən, Swedish: [ˈmǎrːkɵs ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn] ; born 1 June 1979), known by the pseudonym Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game development company Mojang Studios in 2009.
Persson began developing video games at an early age. His commercial success began after he published an early version of Minecraft in 2009. Prior to the game's official retail release in 2011, it had sold over four million copies. After this point Persson stood down as the lead designer and transferred his creative authority to Jens Bergensten. In September 2014 Persson announced his intention to leave Mojang, and in November of that year the company was sold to Microsoft reportedly for US$2.5 billion, which made him a billionaire.
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