# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-chanos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:45:30.295Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-chanos"
name: "James Chanos"
slug: "james-chanos"
description: "James Steven Chanos is a Greek-American investment manager and president/founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City registered investment advisor focused on short selling. He is known for predicting the fall of Enron before its collapse. He has been nicknamed the \"Darth Vader of Wall Street\", the \"Catastrophe Capitalist\" and the \"LeBron James of short selling\". Chanos is a noted art collector."
tagline: "American businessman"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1957-12-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.37
  momentum:             25.52571428571429
  historical:           7.974378666666667
  currentAttention:     15.2
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1928459/"
    handle:    "nm1928459"
sources:
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    title: "James Chanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chanos"
    title: "Jim Chanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chanos"
    title: "Jim Chanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chanos"
    title: "James Chanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chanos"
    title: "James Chanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chanos"
    title: "Jim Chanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chanos"
    title: "James Chanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8E%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジェームズ・チェイノス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1382456"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1802426"
    title: "James Chanos"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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