# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-london
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:59:29.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-london"
name: "Bernard London"
slug: "bernard-london"
description: "Bernard London was an American real estate broker known for his 1932 paper Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence. Scholars credit him with coining the term \"planned obsolescence\"."
tagline: "American real estate broker"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/London_%281932%29_Ending_the_depression_through_planned_obsolescence.pdf/page1-330px-London_%281932%29_Ending_the_depression_through_planned_obsolescence.pdf.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1875"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.676998666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_London"
    title: "Bernard London"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "برنارد لندن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_London"
    title: "Bernard London"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_London"
    title: "Bernard London"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_London"
    title: "Bernard London"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_London"
    title: "Bernard London"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16532299"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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