# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-j-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:44:15.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-j-hill"
name: "James J. Hill"
slug: "james-j-hill"
description: "James Jerome Hill was an American railway entrepreneur. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in the United States. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as \"The Empire Builder\", and died in 1916 with a fortune of about $63 million about $1.3 to 1.7 billion today. His former home, James J. Hill House, is now a museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota."
tagline: "American railroad promoter and financier (1838–1916)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Famous_Living_Americans_-_James_J._Hill.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: "1838-09-16"
deathDate: "1916-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.43
  momentum:             4.747774480712166
  historical:           10.23025066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Хилл, Джеймс Джером"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس جاي هيل"
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    title: "جيمس جاى هيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James J. Hill"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Hill"
    title: "James J. Hill"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Hill"
    title: "James J. Hill"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Hill"
    title: "James J. Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Hill"
    title: "James J. Hill"
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    title: "제임스 제롬 힐"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump