# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kluge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:58.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kluge"
name: "John Kluge"
slug: "john-kluge"
description: "John Werner Kluge was a German-American entrepreneur who became a television industry mogul in the United States. He was the founder and chairman of Metromedia. At one time he was the richest person in the U.S."
tagline: "German-American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_W._Kluge_(American_businessman).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: "1914-09-21"
deathDate: "2010-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.32
  momentum:             3.85648854961832
  historical:           10.63003466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kluge"
    title: "John Kluge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC"
    title: "جون كلوج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC"
    title: "جون كلوج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kluge"
    title: "John Kluge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kluge"
    title: "John Kluge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kluge"
    title: "John Kluge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kluge"
    title: "John Kluge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B2"
    title: "ジョン・クルーゲ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%ED%81%B4%EB%A3%A8%EA%B8%B0"
    title: "존 클루기"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Kluge"
    title: "John W. Kluge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kluge"
    title: "John Kluge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kluge"
    title: "John Kluge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179382"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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