# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-ferguson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:43:22.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-ferguson"
name: "Charles Ferguson"
slug: "charles-ferguson"
description: "Charles Henry Ferguson is an American angel investor and strategic advisor to early stage technology startups and venture capital firms, especially in artificial intelligence. He is also the founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc. and director and producer of four feature documentaries, including No End in Sight (2007), which won the Sundance Special Jury Prize and Inside Job (2010), which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Prior to making films, Ferguson was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Visiting Scholar at MIT and UC Berkeley, and a visiting lecturer in the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Earlier in his career Ferguson was the founder and CEO of Vermeer Technologies, developer of FrontPage, which was sold to Microsoft in 1996. Ferguson holds a BA in mathematics from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in political science from MIT. Ferguson is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the board of directors of the French American Foundation."
tagline: "American film producer and angel investor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Ferguson_(Representational_Pictures%2C_Inc.).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-03-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.55
  momentum:             4.426229508196722
  historical:           10.50281066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/CharlesFerguson"
    handle:    "CharlesFerguson"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2480587/"
    handle:    "nm2480587"
sources:
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    title: "Фергюсон, Чарльз (режиссёр)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز فيرغسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز فيرجسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Ferguson"
    title: "Charles H. Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ferguson_(filmmaker)"
    title: "Charles Ferguson (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ferguson"
    title: "Charles Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چارلز فرگوسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Ferguson"
    title: "Charles H. Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ferguson_(pembuat_film)"
    title: "Charles Ferguson (pembuat film)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Ferguson"
    title: "Charles H. Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ferguson"
    title: "Charles Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ferguson"
    title: "Charles Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524780"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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