# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-b-kelly-sr
# Generated: 2026-09-01T01:20:36.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-b-kelly-sr"
name: "John B. Kelly Sr."
slug: "john-b-kelly-sr"
description: "John Brendan Kelly Sr. was an American triple Olympic champion, the first in the sport of rowing. The Philadelphia-based Kelly was a multimillionaire in the bricklaying and construction industry, and was involved in politics, serving as Pennsylvania secretary of revenue and running unsuccessfully for mayor of Philadelphia in the 1935 Philadelphia mayoral election."
tagline: "American Olympic rower (1889–1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johnbkellysr_(2).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: "1889-10-04"
deathDate: "1960-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.14
  momentum:             4.044079958995385
  historical:           18.26878133333334
  currentAttention:     22.4671108833077
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Kelly_senior"
    title: "John B. Kelly senior"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kelly_Sr._(rower)"
    title: "Jack Kelly Sr. (rower)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Brendan Kelly"
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    title: "John B. Kelly senior"
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    title: "老约翰·B·凯利"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump