# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-murray-forbes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:02:53.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-murray-forbes"
name: "John Murray Forbes"
slug: "john-murray-forbes"
description: "John Murray Forbes was an American railroad magnate, merchant, opium merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist. He was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s. He kept doing business with Russell & Company."
tagline: "American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist (1813–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Murray_Forbes_(1813%E2%80%931898)%2C_c._1851.png?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: "1813-02-23"
deathDate: "1898-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.85
  momentum:             8.833687988312267
  historical:           7.257816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جون موراي فوربس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون موراى فوربس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Forbes"
    title: "John Murray Forbes"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Forbes"
    title: "John Murray Forbes"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Forbes"
    title: "John Murray Forbes"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D1%8E%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%81"
    title: "Джон Мюррей Форбс"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%92_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "جان مرے فوربس"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump