# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-phelan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:32:21.585Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-phelan"
name: "John Phelan"
slug: "john-phelan"
description: "John Cartwright Phelan is an American businessman and political donor who served as the United States secretary of the Navy from 2025 to 2026. Phelan worked for several firms during his career in finance before co-founding MSD Capital. He then founded Rugger Management. He helped fundraising for Donald Trump's presidential campaigns before being appointed as Secretary of the Navy."
tagline: "American businessman (born 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Secretary_of_Navy_John_Phelan.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: "1964-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.914069333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E8%B4%B9%E5%85%B0"
    title: "约翰·费兰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Phelan"
    title: "John Phelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Phelan"
    title: "John C. Phelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%9F"
    title: "ג'ון פלן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Phelan"
    title: "John Phelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Phelan_(businessman)"
    title: "John Phelan (businessman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Джон Картрайт Фелан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130564571"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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