# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-willard-marriott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:35:14.035Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-willard-marriott"
name: "J. Willard Marriott"
slug: "j-willard-marriott"
description: "John Willard Marriott Sr. was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation, the parent company of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains, and food services companies. The Marriott company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington, D.C., in 1927 to a chain of family restaurants by 1932, to its first motel in 1957. By the time he died in 1985, the Marriott company operated 1,400 restaurants and 143 hotels and resorts worldwide, including two theme parks, earned US$4.5 billion in revenue annually with 154,600 employees. The company's interests also extended to a line of cruise ships."
tagline: "American hotel founder (1900–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J_Willard_Marriott.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1900-09-17"
deathDate: "1985-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4374601826290083
  historical:           12.62054666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump