# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eldridge-r-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:25:36.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eldridge-r-johnson"
name: "Eldridge R. Johnson"
slug: "eldridge-r-johnson"
description: "Eldridge Reeves Johnson was an American businessman and inventor who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 through a merger of his Consolidated Talking Machine Company and the Berliner Gramophone Company. He sold the company in 1926 for US$40 million and it became part of RCA Corporation."
tagline: "American businessman and engineer (1867–1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eldridge_R._Johnson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1867-02-06"
deathDate: "1945-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.434704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Էլդրիջ Ռ. Ջոնսոն"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump