# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-lorenzo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:14:32.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-lorenzo"
name: "Frank Lorenzo"
slug: "frank-lorenzo"
description: "Francisco Anthony \"Frank\" Lorenzo is an American corporate raider and former airline executive best known for his controversial and destructive tenure in the U.S. airline industry during the 1970s and 1980s. Through his holding company, Texas Air Corporation, Lorenzo gained control of Texas International Airlines, Continental Airlines, New York Air, People Express, Frontier Airlines, and finally Eastern Air Lines."
tagline: "American businessman and philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francisco_Lorenzo_2012_image.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1940-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.756702666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lorenzo"
    title: "Frank Lorenzo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88"
    title: "فرانك لورينزو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88"
    title: "فرانك لورينزو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84%E3%82%A9"
    title: "フランク・ロレンツォ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lorenzo"
    title: "Frank Lorenzo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lorenzo"
    title: "Frank Lorenzo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1443680"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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