# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-young
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:24:10.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-young"
name: "Bob Young"
slug: "bob-young"
description: "Robert Young is a businessman who is best known for founding Red Hat Inc., the open source software company. He owns the franchises for Forge FC of the Canadian Premier League as well as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League for which he is self-styled caretaker of the team."
tagline: "Canadian entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BobYoungJI1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1954-01-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.22
  momentum:             14.44881386861314
  historical:           10.53215066666667
  currentAttention:     49.73582257158898
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF_(%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1)"
    title: "باب یانگ (تاجر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "بوب يانغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "بوب يانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young_(businessman)"
    title: "Bob Young (businessman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young"
    title: "Bob Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "باب یانگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young"
    title: "Bob Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young_(imprenditore)"
    title: "Bob Young (imprenditore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0"
    title: "ボブ・ヤング"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young_(gr%C3%BCnder)"
    title: "Bob Young (gründer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young"
    title: "Bob Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young_(i%C5%9F_insan%C4%B1)"
    title: "Bob Young (iş insanı)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2717411"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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