# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amir-ansari
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:58:57.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amir-ansari"
name: "Amir Ansari"
slug: "amir-ansari"
description: "Amir Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is best known as a co-founder of the telecommunications company Telecom Technologies, Inc. and the digital services firm Prodea Systems. Ansari and his family were major sponsors of the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million competition for private spaceflight, and he serves on the board of directors of the Xprize Foundation. He has been involved in multiple technology ventures and philanthropic initiatives in telecommunications, education, and commercial spaceflight."
tagline: "Co-founder:venture capital firm Prodea Systems Inc"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/AAnsari_Xprize_2004.png/330px-AAnsari_Xprize_2004.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.1
  momentum:             6.704265791632485
  historical:           7.01782
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "عامر انصاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "أمير أنصاري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "امير انصارى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Ansari_(Unternehmer)"
    title: "Amir Ansari (Unternehmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Ansari"
    title: "Amir Ansari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "امیر انصاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Ansari"
    title: "Amir Ansari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Ansari"
    title: "Amir Ansari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471973"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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