# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herman-lay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:07:29.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herman-lay"
name: "Herman Lay"
slug: "herman-lay"
description: "Herman Warden Lay was an American businessman who was involved in potato chip manufacturing with his eponymous brand of Lay's potato chips. He started H.W. Lay Co., Inc., now part of the Frito-Lay corporation, a subsidiary of PepsiCo."
tagline: "American businessman (1909–1982)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Herman_W._Lay.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1909-06-03"
deathDate: "1982-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.57
  momentum:             0.5485689505637467
  historical:           5.841806666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Lay"
    title: "Herman Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "هيرمان لاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "هيرمان لاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8D%D0%B9%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Лэй, Герман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "هرمن لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Lay"
    title: "Herman Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3134077"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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