# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irwin-m-jacobs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:19:33.055Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/irwin-m-jacobs"
name: "Irwin M. Jacobs"
slug: "irwin-m-jacobs"
description: "Irwin Mark Jacobs is an American electrical engineer and businessman. He is a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. As of 2019, Jacobs had an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion."
tagline: "American electrical engineer and philanthropist"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1933-10-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump