# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-zhang
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:58:48.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-zhang"
name: "Daniel Zhang"
slug: "daniel-zhang"
description: "Daniel Zhang Yong is a Chinese business executive who was the executive chairman and chief executive officer of Alibaba Group. Before becoming Alibaba's chief, Zhang was best known for his roles as CEO of Taobao and president of Tmall. While running Tmall, Zhang created the Singles' Day shopping holiday, an annual Chinese sales event with gross sales reaching four times higher than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined."
tagline: "Chinese businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daniel_Zhang_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Executives"
  slug: "executives"
profileType:
  name: "Executive"
  slug: "executive"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1972-01-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.60004133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 109
sources:
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    title: "张勇 (上海企业家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Даниел Джан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Zhang"
    title: "Daniel Zhang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Daniel Zhang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Daniel Zhang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Zhang"
    title: "Daniel Zhang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Daniel Zhang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Daniel Zhang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Daniel Zhang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Деніел Чжан"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_D%C5%A9ng_(doanh_nh%C3%A2n)"
    title: "Trương Dũng (doanh nhân)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump