# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gayle-benson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:13:38.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gayle-benson"
name: "Gayle Benson"
slug: "gayle-benson"
description: "Gayle Marie LaJaunie Bird Benson is an American businesswoman who is the owner of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) and the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). She became the principal owner of the Saints and Pelicans following the death of her husband, Tom Benson, in 2018."
tagline: "American businesswoman and sports executive (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benson-headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1947-01-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.44
  momentum:             19.82758620689655
  historical:           5.543758666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "גייל בנסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_Benson"
    title: "Gayle Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_Benson"
    title: "Gayle Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "گیل بینسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_Benson"
    title: "Gayle Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "గేల్ బెన్సన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53976393"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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