# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-mays
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:18:18.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-mays"
name: "J Mays"
slug: "j-mays"
description: "J Carrol Mays is a retired American industrial designer who served as Group Vice President of Global Design and Chief Creative Officer at Ford Motor Company, and was Chief Design Officer at Whirlpool. His first name is simply \"J\", after his grandfather, S J Mays."
tagline: "American automobile designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J_Mays.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1954-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.52
  momentum:             1.441812564366632
  historical:           4.839996
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrol_Meys"
    title: "Kerrol Meys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Mays"
    title: "J Mays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Mays"
    title: "J Mays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Mays"
    title: "J Mays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Mays"
    title: "J Mays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1305775"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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