# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denis-o-brien
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:26:38.857Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denis-o-brien"
name: "Denis O'Brien"
slug: "denis-o-brien"
description: "Denis O'Brien is an Irish billionaire businessman, and the founder and owner of Digicel. He was listed among the World's Top 200 Billionaires in 2015 and was Ireland's richest native-born citizen for several years. His business interests have also extended to aircraft leasing, utilities support (Actavo), petroleum, football, and healthcare. As former chairman of the Esat Digifone consortium, O'Brien was questioned by the Moriarty Tribunal, which investigated the awarding of a mobile phone licence to Esat, among other things."
tagline: "Irish businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Denis_O'Brien_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1958-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.53
  momentum:             18.20684868116613
  historical:           5.872154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_O%E2%80%99Brien_(Unternehmer)"
    title: "Denis O’Brien (Unternehmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "دينيس أوبراين (رجل أعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7)"
    title: "دينيس اوبراين (رائد اعمال من جمهوريه ايرلاندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_O'Brien"
    title: "Denis O'Brien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_O'Brien"
    title: "Denis O'Brien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "دنیس اوبرایان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3022849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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