# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-lang
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:39:55.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugene-lang"
name: "Eugene Lang"
slug: "eugene-lang"
description: "Eugene Michael Lang was an American businessman and philanthropist who founded REFAC Technology Development Corporation in 1951. REFAC held patents relating to liquid crystal displays, automated teller machines, credit card verification systems, bar code scanners, video cassette recorders, cassette players, camcorders, electronic keyboards, and spreadsheets, and filed thousands of lawsuits against other corporations as part of a strategic operational and technological licensing and exportation process. Lang created the I Have A Dream Foundation in 1981, Project Pericles in 2001, and the Lang Youth Medical Program in 2003. He was also the chairman of the board at Swarthmore College."
tagline: "American philanthropist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1919-03-16"
deathDate: "2017-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.319658666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "يوجين لانغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Lang"
    title: "Eugene Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Lang"
    title: "Eugene Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5407419"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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