# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-burke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:49:00.779Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-burke"
name: "James Burke"
slug: "james-burke"
description: "James Burke, also known as \"Jimmy the Gent\", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time. He was believed to be responsible for the deaths of those involved in the months after the robbery."
tagline: "American gangster (1931–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Burke_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-07-05"
deathDate: "1996-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.18
  momentum:             6.865973934483975
  historical:           15.07287466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%A9_(%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1)"
    title: "جیمز برک (گینگسٹر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83_(%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%85)"
    title: "جيمس بيرك (مجرم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(Mafioso)"
    title: "James Burke (Mafioso)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(gangster)"
    title: "James Burke (gangster)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(g%C3%A1ngster)"
    title: "James Burke (gángster)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(criminel)"
    title: "James Burke (criminel)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A7_(%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8)"
    title: "ג'יימס בורק (גנגסטר)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Burke"
    title: "Jimmy Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ジミー・バーク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke"
    title: "James Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke"
    title: "James Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke"
    title: "James Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%91%D1%80%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Бёрк, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(gangster)"
    title: "James Burke (gangster)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(gangster)"
    title: "James Burke (gangster)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q969855"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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