# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-ricketts
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:56:54.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-ricketts"
name: "Joe Ricketts"
slug: "joe-ricketts"
description: "John Joseph Ricketts is an American businessman. He is the founder, former CEO and former chair of TD Ameritrade. He has an estimated net worth of US$4.1 billion as of 2024, according to Forbes. He has pursued a variety of other business ventures including DNAinfo.com, High Plains Bison, The Lodge at Jackson Fork, and The American Film Company. Ricketts also engages in philanthropy through The Ricketts Art Foundation, Opportunity Education Foundation, The Cloisters on the Platte Foundation, and The Ricketts Conservation Foundation. He and his family have been the owners of the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball since October 2009."
tagline: "American businessman (born 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Ricketts.jpg?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: "1941-07-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.9638
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joericketts.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%B9%D8%B3"
    title: "جو ریکٹس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "جو ريكيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ricketts"
    title: "Joe Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "جو ریکتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ricketts"
    title: "Joe Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ricketts"
    title: "Joe Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ricketts"
    title: "Joe Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Ricketts"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6212003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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