# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-neeleman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:50.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-neeleman"
name: "David Neeleman"
slug: "david-neeleman"
description: "David Gary Neeleman is a Brazilian-American businessman and entrepreneur. He has founded five commercial airlines: Morris Air, WestJet, JetBlue Airways, Azul Brazilian Airlines, and Breeze Airways. Along with Humberto Pedrosa and Aigle Azur, he owned 45% of TAP Air Portugal. In 2017 he became a citizen of Cyprus."
tagline: "Brazilian-American aviation entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Neeleman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1959-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.72
  momentum:             11.20881088825215
  historical:           9.093586666666667
  currentAttention:     35.41850341635442
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Neeleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديڤيد نيليمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neeleman"
    title: "David Neeleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neeleman"
    title: "David Neeleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neeleman"
    title: "David Neeleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "دیوید نیلمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "דייוויד נילמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neeleman"
    title: "David Neeleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neeleman"
    title: "David Neeleman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1791549"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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