# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-melnyk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:29:36.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugene-melnyk"
name: "Eugene Melnyk"
slug: "eugene-melnyk"
description: "Eugene Nestor Melnyk was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and owner, governor, and chairman of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Ottawa Senators and the American Hockey League's Belleville Senators. He was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Biovail Corporation, once Canada's largest publicly traded pharmaceutical company with more than CA$1 billion in annual revenue. He had sold almost all of his holdings in the company by 2010. Canadian Business magazine ranked Melnyk 79th on its 2017 list of Canada's 100 wealthiest people, with a net worth of CA$1.21 billion. He was also one of the richest residents of Barbados."
tagline: "Canadian sports businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eugene_Melnyk_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Executives"
  slug: "executives"
profileType:
  name: "Executive"
  slug: "executive"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1959-05-27"
deathDate: "2022-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.46
  momentum:             0.02209944751381216
  historical:           7.531970666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 129
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2234147/"
    handle:    "nm2234147"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Melnyk"
    title: "Eugene Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "يوجين ميلنيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Melnyk"
    title: "Eugene Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Melnyk"
    title: "Eugene Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Melnyk"
    title: "Eugene Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%AE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Мельник, Юджин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Melnyk"
    title: "Eugene Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%84%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_(%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%94%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%8C)"
    title: "Євген Мельник (підприємець)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%86%DA%A9"
    title: "یوجین میلنک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5407539"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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