# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-j-debartolo-sr
# Generated: 2026-08-31T12:53:15.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-j-debartolo-sr"
name: "Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr."
slug: "edward-j-debartolo-sr"
description: "Edward John DeBartolo Sr. was an American businessman and real-estate developer. In 1971, his Ohio-based corporation was ranked 47th among the nation's top 400 construction contractors. In 1983, DeBartolo was included on Forbes magazine's first Forbes 400 list of richest Americans."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Edward_J._DeBartolo%2C_Sr.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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: "1909-05-17"
deathDate: "1994-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.19
  momentum:             25
  historical:           2.834212
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5343637"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._DeBartolo_Sr."
    title: "Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "ادوارد جيه. ديبارتولو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views