# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-blankenship
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:32:39.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-blankenship"
name: "Don Blankenship"
slug: "don-blankenship"
description: "Donald Leon Blankenship is an American businessman. He was chairman and CEO of the Massey Energy Company—the sixth-largest coal company in the United States—from 2000 until 2010 when an explosion at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine resulted in the death of 29 workers. He served one year in prison for conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards."
tagline: "American business executive (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Blankenship_Image.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1950-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.15
  momentum:             1.058201058201058
  historical:           7.747954666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 103
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DonBlankenship"
    handle:    "DonBlankenship"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/DonLBlankenship"
    handle:    "DonLBlankenship"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3650052/"
    handle:    "nm3650052"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.donblankenship.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6uv4ySAjLnxHm53ugR_ZA"
    handle:    "@donlblankenship"
    followers: 103
sources:
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    title: "唐·布兰肯希普"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8"
    title: "دون بلانكنشيب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%99%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA"
    title: "ডন ব্ল্যাঙ্কেনশিপ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blankenship"
    title: "Don Blankenship"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blankenship"
    title: "Don Blankenship"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blankenship"
    title: "Don Blankenship"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blankenship"
    title: "Don Blankenship"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blankenship"
    title: "Don Blankenship"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5292240"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4220755"
    title: "Don Blankenship"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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