# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-c-novak
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:27.574Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-c-novak"
name: "David C. Novak"
slug: "david-c-novak"
description: "David Charles Novak is an American businessman, author and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, and co-founder and former CEO of YUM! Brands Inc."
tagline: "American businessman and the executive chairman of YUM! Brands Inc"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Novak_2019.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: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.56
  momentum:             1.477485928705441
  historical:           5.754758666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David C. Novak"
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    title: "ديفيد س. نوفاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد س. نوفاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E8%A1%9B%C2%B7%E8%AB%BE%E7%93%A6%E5%85%8B"
    title: "大衛·諾瓦克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B3%DB%8C._%D9%86%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9"
    title: "دیوید سی. نوواک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_C._Novak"
    title: "David C. Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5232041"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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