# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-thelen
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:18:52.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-thelen"
name: "Frank Thelen"
slug: "frank-thelen"
description: "Frank Thelen is a German businessman, investor and author based in Bonn. He is best known as an investor in the TV series Die Höhle der Löwen, the German version of Shark Tank."
tagline: "German businessman and investor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Thelen_Portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Investors"
  slug: "investors"
profileType:
  name: "Investor"
  slug: "investor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1975-10-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.62
  momentum:             16.97868760515984
  historical:           4.117777333333333
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 33
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/frank_thelen"
    handle:    "frank_thelen"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/frank_thelen/"
    handle:    "frank_thelen"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6793829/"
    handle:    "nm6793829"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://frank.io/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15465039"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Thelen"
    title: "Frank Thelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "فرانك ثيلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Thelen"
    title: "Frank Thelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1555486"
    title: "Frank Thelen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views