# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-michelin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:17.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-michelin"
name: "François Michelin"
slug: "francois-michelin"
description: "François Michelin was a French heir and businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Michelin from 1955 to 1999. Under his leadership, a family business founded by his grandfather became the leading global tire manufacturer, dominating the market in Europe and the US. A practising Roman Catholic, he was idiosyncratically non-hierarchical and conducted business from his hometown of Clermont-Ferrand in the rural Auvergne."
tagline: "French businessman (1926-2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1926-06-15"
deathDate: "2015-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.4
  momentum:             0.9183673469387756
  historical:           6.379557333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Michelin"
    title: "François Michelin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Michelin"
    title: "François Michelin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Michelin"
    title: "François Michelin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Michelin"
    title: "François Michelin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Michelin"
    title: "François Michelin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Michelin"
    title: "François Michelin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0"
    title: "Мишлен, Франсуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3085360"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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