# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-bass
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:03:17.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-bass"
name: "Ed Bass"
slug: "ed-bass"
description: "Edward Perry \"Ed\" Bass is an American businessman, financier, philanthropist and environmentalist who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. He financed the Biosphere 2 project, an artificial closed ecological system, which was built between 1987 and 1991. He is the chairman of Fine Line, an investment and venture-capital management firm in Fort Worth, and chairman of the board of directors of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, a philanthropic organization. He was listed as #239 on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2012, with an estimated net worth of $2 billion."
tagline: "American financier and philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Biosphere2_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.71
  momentum:             15.51123595505618
  historical:           6.432729333333334
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%BE%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E6%96%AF"
    title: "艾德·巴斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "إد باس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bass"
    title: "Edward Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bass"
    title: "Ed Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "اد باس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bass"
    title: "Ed Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bass"
    title: "Ed Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5334534"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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