# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-edgerton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:13:44.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-edgerton"
name: "David Edgerton"
slug: "david-edgerton"
description: "David Russell Edgerton Jr. was an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Burger King, in what would become the second-largest burger chain after McDonald's. After serving as a manager of another restaurant, Howard Johnson's, on March 1, 1954, he opened a franchise outlet of the restaurant chain Insta Burger King in Miami, Florida. On June 1 of the same year, he met fellow restaurateur James McLamore and the two founded the Burger King Corporation. After leaving Burger King, he went on to start Bodega, a steakhouse restaurant."
tagline: "American businessman (1927-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Edgerton.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: "1927-05-26"
deathDate: "2018-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.488812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "デビッド・エジャトン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد إيدجيرتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد ايدجيرتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgerton_(Unternehmer)"
    title: "David Edgerton (Unternehmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgerton"
    title: "David Edgerton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgerton"
    title: "David Edgerton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgerton"
    title: "David Edgerton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgerton"
    title: "David Edgerton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1174300"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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