# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-newton-duke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:00:14.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-newton-duke"
name: "Benjamin Newton Duke"
slug: "benjamin-newton-duke"
description: "Benjamin Newton Duke was an American tobacco, textile and energy industrialist and philanthropist. He served as vice-president at American Tobacco Company, being also founder of Duke Energy."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Benjamin_Newton_Duke.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: "1855-04-25"
deathDate: "1929-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.509110666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дьюк, Бенджамин Ньютон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump