# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arlene-dickinson
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:30.933Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arlene-dickinson"
name: "Arlene Dickinson"
slug: "arlene-dickinson"
description: "Arlene Dickinson is a South African and Canadian businesswoman, investor, author, and television personality. She is the general partner of District Ventures Capital and CEO of Venturepark. Dickinson joined the cast of the CBC business reality show Dragons' Den during its second season in 2007 and departed in the ninth season in 2015. She then returned to continue with the Dragons for the 12th season in 2017. She was selected to perform on the series after she won numerous awards, including Calgary Business Owner of the Year, PROFIT magazine's Top 100 Women Business Owners, the Pinnacle Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards and Canada's Most Powerful Women Top 100. The show describes her as a self-made multi-millionaire."
tagline: "Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arlene_Dickinson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1956-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.415202666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2886763/"
    handle:    "nm2886763"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://arlenedickinson.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Arlene Dickinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أرلين ديكنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ארלין דיקנסן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%BC%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%B6_%D4%B4%D5%AB%D6%84%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%BD%D5%B8%D5%B6"
    title: "Առլեն Դիքինսոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4792146"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1407600"
    title: "Arlene Dickinson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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