# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-wertheim
# Generated: 2026-08-20T20:37:11.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-wertheim"
name: "Herbert Wertheim"
slug: "herbert-wertheim"
description: "Herbert A. Wertheim is an American optometrist, inventor, billionaire businessman, and philanthropist. He is the founder and president of Brain Power Incorporated (BPI)."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Herbert_Wertheim_and_Wally_Rhines_at_University_of_Florida_in_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Herbert_Wertheim_and_Wally_Rhines_at_University_of_Florida_in_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.99
  momentum:             25
  historical:           4.930170666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5735877"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wertheim"
    title: "Herbert Wertheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wertheim"
    title: "Herbert Wertheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wertheim"
    title: "Herbert Wertheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

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