# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-gardner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:25:45.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-gardner"
name: "Chris Gardner"
slug: "chris-gardner"
description: "Christopher Paul Gardner, Sr. is an American businessman and motivational speaker. He became a stockbroker in the mid-1980s and eventually founded his own brokerage firm, Gardner Rich & Co, in 1987. In 2006, Gardner sold his minority stake in the firm and published a memoir. The book was later made into the motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness."
tagline: "American businessman and motivational speaker"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-02-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump