# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-delligatti
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:20:46.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-delligatti"
name: "Jim Delligatti"
slug: "jim-delligatti"
description: "Michael James Delligatti was an American entrepreneur. He was an early franchisee of the fast food restaurant chain McDonald's, opening the first of his eventual 48 branches in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1957. Delligatti is famously known as the creator of McDonald's \"Big Mac\" hamburger in 1967."
tagline: "American businessman (1918–2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Jim_Delligatti.jpg"
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: "1918-08-02"
deathDate: "2016-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.05
  momentum:             3.583617747440274
  historical:           7.4513
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4388475/"
    handle:    "nm4388475"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Delligatti"
    title: "Jim Delligatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "چيم ديليجاتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Delligatti"
    title: "Jim Delligatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Delligatti"
    title: "Jim Delligatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Delligatti"
    title: "Jim Delligatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Delligatti"
    title: "Jim Delligatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Delligatti"
    title: "Jim Delligatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Delligatti"
    title: "Jim Delligatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27929657"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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