# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-r-schwab
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:11:14.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-r-schwab"
name: "Charles R. Schwab"
slug: "charles-r-schwab"
description: "Charles Robert Schwab Sr. is an American investor and financial executive. The founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation, he pioneered discount sales of equity securities starting in 1975. His company became by far the largest discount securities dealer in the United States. He semi-retired from the company in 2008 when he stepped down as CEO, but he remains chairman and is the largest shareholder."
tagline: "American entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_schwab_2007.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: "1937-07-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.02359733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Charles R. Schwab"
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    title: "چارلز شوآب"
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    title: "Չարլզ Ռոբերտ Շվաբ"
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    title: "Charles Schwab"
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    title: "چارلس آر شواب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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