# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-harkness
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:48:10.539Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-harkness"
name: "Edward Harkness"
slug: "edward-harkness"
description: "Edward Stephen Harkness was an American philanthropist. Given privately and through his family's Commonwealth Fund, Harkness' gifts to private hospitals, art museums, and educational institutions in the Northeastern United States were among the largest of the early twentieth century. He was a major benefactor to Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy, St. Paul's School, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1934."
tagline: "American philanthropist (1874-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_S_Harkness_Met.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1874-01-22"
deathDate: "1940-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46
  momentum:             0.9600968164856962
  historical:           6.586757333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "إدوارد هاركنيس"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Harkness"
    title: "Edward Harkness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Едвард Гаркнесс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88_%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "ایڈورڈ ہارکنیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump