# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hendricks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:55:51.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hendricks"
name: "John Hendricks"
slug: "john-hendricks"
description: "John Samuel Hendricks is an American businessman and the founder and former chairman of Discovery, Inc., a broadcasting and film production company which owned the Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet networks, among other ventures. On March 20, 2014, after 32 years at the helm, he made public his intention to retire as chairman of Discovery Communications after the annual shareholders' meeting of May 16, 2014. He moved on to found Curiosity Stream, an ad-free, on-demand streaming service."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Hendricks%2C_The_Baltimore_Sun_1988-09-16_page_87.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: "1952-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.91
  momentum:             6.108571428571429
  historical:           5.307598666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13395323/"
    handle:    "nm13395323"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hendricks"
    title: "John Hendricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "جون هيندريكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Джон Хендрикс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hendricks"
    title: "John Hendricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hendricks"
    title: "John Hendricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3658792"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1517990"
    title: "John Hendricks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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