# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-lick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:14:28.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-lick"
name: "James Lick"
slug: "james-lick"
description: "James Lick was an American real estate investor, carpenter, piano builder, land baron, and patron of the sciences. The wealthiest man in California at the time of his death, Lick left the majority of his estate to social and scientific causes."
tagline: "American businessman and piano builder (1796–1876)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Lick.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1796-08-25"
deathDate: "1876-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             8.182535827058537
  historical:           8.309650666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Лик, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lick"
    title: "James Lick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lick"
    title: "James Lick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lick"
    title: "James Lick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lick"
    title: "James Lick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lick"
    title: "James Lick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lick"
    title: "James Lick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lick"
    title: "James Lick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lick"
    title: "James Lick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q629500"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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