# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-manoogian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:03:51.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-manoogian"
name: "Alex Manoogian"
slug: "alex-manoogian"
description: "Alexander Manoogian was an Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, and philanthropist who spent most of his career in Detroit, Michigan. He was the founder of the Masco Corporation, which in 1969 was listed on the NYSE (XNYS:MAS). In 1954, he patented and brought to market the first successful washerless ball valve faucet, the Delta faucet, named for the faucet cam shaped like the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet."
tagline: "American businessman (1901-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alex_Manoogian_2026_stamp_of_Armenia_2.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1901-06-28"
deathDate: "1996-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.704934666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Алекс Манукян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اليكس مانوجيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aleks Manukyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Алекс Манукян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Manoogian"
    title: "Alex Manoogian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Manoogian"
    title: "Alex Manoogian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آلکس مانوکیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alex Manoogian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ալեք Մանուկյան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AC%D5%A5%D6%84_%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AF%D5%A5%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Ալեք Մանուկեան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%8F%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Манукян, Алекс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Manoogian"
    title: "Alex Manoogian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2046879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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