# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-abele
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:46:56.243Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-abele"
name: "John Abele"
slug: "john-abele"
description: "John E. Abele is an American businessman and co-founder of Boston Scientific, a medical device company. He received the ASME Medal in 2010 and, as of November 2024, has a net worth of $1.9 billion. He was first listed on the Forbes 400 in 1996 as a self-made billionaire. Although he has given away a significant portion of his wealth, he remains Vermont's only billionaire, residing in Shelburne. Through his private family foundation, the Argosy Foundation, Abele has donated over $130 million to charitable causes since 2001."
tagline: "Businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Abele_at_the_William_and_Flora_Hewlett_Foundation's_Annual_OER_Meeting_and_Creative_Commons_(33477234564).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"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.448204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E9%98%BF%E8%B2%9D%E7%88%BE"
    title: "約翰·阿貝爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abele"
    title: "John Abele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abele"
    title: "John Abele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abele"
    title: "John Abele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "جان ابیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abele"
    title: "John Abele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abele"
    title: "John Abele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abele"
    title: "John Abele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4272092"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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