# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-r-simplot
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:50:42.746Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-r-simplot"
name: "J. R. Simplot"
slug: "j-r-simplot"
description: "John Richard Simplot was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho–based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products. In 2007, he was estimated to be the 89th-richest person in the United States, at $3.6 billion. At the time of his death at age 99 in May 2008, he was the oldest billionaire on the Forbes 400."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/J._R._Simplot.jpeg"
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: "1909-01-04"
deathDate: "2008-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.53
  momentum:             4.340501792114696
  historical:           8.477369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "جون رشارد سيمبلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simplot"
    title: "John Simplot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot"
    title: "J. R. Simplot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot"
    title: "J. R. Simplot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Richard_Simplot"
    title: "John Richard Simplot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
    title: "ジョン・リチャード・シンプロット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Симплот, Джон Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot"
    title: "J. R. Simplot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot"
    title: "J. R. Simplot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326178"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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