# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/galen-weston
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:10:28.164Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/galen-weston"
name: "Galen Weston"
slug: "galen-weston"
description: "Willard Gordon Galen Weston was a British-Canadian billionaire businessman and Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited, a Canadian food processing and distribution company. Weston and his family, with an estimated net worth of US$8.7 billion, were listed as the third-wealthiest family in Canada and 178th in the world by Forbes magazine in June 2019."
tagline: "Canadian billionaire (1940-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willard_Gordon_Galen_Weston_at_the_CFC_Gala_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1940-10-29"
deathDate: "2021-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.44493866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "گیلن ویسٹن"
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    title: "Galen Weston"
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    title: "Galen Weston"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Weston"
    title: "Willard Weston"
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    title: "Galen Weston"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump