# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-kahn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:38:44.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-kahn"
name: "Irving Kahn"
slug: "irving-kahn"
description: "Irving Kahn was an American investor and philanthropist. He was the oldest living active investor. He was an early disciple of Benjamin Graham, who popularized the value investing methodology. Kahn began his career in 1928 and continued to work until his death. He was chairman of Kahn Brothers Group, Inc., the privately owned investment advisory and broker-dealer firm that he founded with his sons, Thomas and Alan, in 1978."
tagline: "American value investor and money manager"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Irving_Kahn_photo.jpg/330px-Irving_Kahn_photo.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Investors"
  slug: "investors"
profileType:
  name: "Investor"
  slug: "investor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1905-12-19"
deathDate: "2015-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.36
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.430492000000001
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 42
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    title: "Irving Kahn"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kahn"
    title: "Irving Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Irving Kahn"
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    title: "Irving Kahn"
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    title: "Irving Kahn"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill