# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-lear
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:53:06.692Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-lear"
name: "Bill Lear"
slug: "bill-lear"
description: "William Powell Lear was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding Learjet, a manufacturer of business jets. He also invented the battery eliminator for the B battery, and developed the car radio and the 8-track cartridge, an audio tape system. Throughout his career of 46 years, Lear received over 140 patents."
tagline: "American businessman and inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Lear.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1902-06-26"
deathDate: "1978-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.005338666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495164/"
    handle:    "nm0495164"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%9B%D1%96%D1%80"
    title: "Вільям Лір"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بيل لير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lear"
    title: "William Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lear"
    title: "Bill Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lear"
    title: "Bill Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lear"
    title: "Bill Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Powell_Lear"
    title: "William Powell Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%80%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Лир, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1401997"
    title: "Bill O'Leary"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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