# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-goodnight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:43:39.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-goodnight"
name: "James Goodnight"
slug: "james-goodnight"
description: "James Howard Goodnight is an American billionaire businessman and software developer. He has been the CEO of SAS since 1976, which he co-founded that year with other faculty members of North Carolina State University. As of 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$18.5 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index and he is regarded as the richest person in North Carolina."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Goodnight.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1943-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.033125333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جيمس غودنايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جيمس جودنايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Goodnight"
    title: "James Goodnight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Goodnight"
    title: "James Goodnight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Goodnight"
    title: "James Goodnight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Goodnight"
    title: "James Goodnight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92733"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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