# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-cayne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:53:38.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-cayne"
name: "James Cayne"
slug: "james-cayne"
description: "James E. \"Jimmy\" Cayne was an American businessman and CEO of Bear Stearns. In 2006, he became the first Wall Street chief to own a company stake worth more than $1 billion, but he lost most of that in the 2007–2008 collapse of Bear's stock and sold his entire stake in the company for $61 million."
tagline: "American businessman (1934–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_James_Cayne_in_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1934-02-14"
deathDate: "2021-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.748890666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cayne"
    title: "Jimmy Cayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cayne"
    title: "James Cayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cayne"
    title: "Jimmy Cayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cayne"
    title: "James Cayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cayne"
    title: "Jimmy Cayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cayne"
    title: "James Cayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2454247"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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