# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-bronfman-sr
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:28:47.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edgar-bronfman-sr"
name: "Edgar Bronfman, Sr."
slug: "edgar-bronfman-sr"
description: "Edgar Miles Bronfman was a Canadian-American businessman. He worked for his family's distilled beverage firm, Seagram, eventually becoming president, treasurer and CEO. As president of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman initiated diplomacy with the Soviet Union, which resulted in the Soviet government legitimizing the Hebrew language in the USSR and contributed to Soviet Jews being legally able to practice their religion and immigrate to Israel."
tagline: "Canadian-American businessman (1929–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edgar_M_Bronfman_1989.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: "1929-06-20"
deathDate: "2013-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.76
  momentum:             0.4088586030664395
  historical:           12.67229866666667
  currentAttention:     2.271436683702442
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Edgar Miles Bronfman senior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%81%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "ادگار برونفمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edgar Miles Bronfman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "אדגר ברונפמן (האב)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edgar Bronfman Sr."
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_M._Bronfman"
    title: "Edgar M. Bronfman"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bronfman_Sr."
    title: "Edgar Bronfman Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bronfman_Sr."
    title: "Edgar Bronfman Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bronfman_Sr."
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88%DA%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%81_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "ایڈگر برونف مین سینئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump