# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-thayer-q983608
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:30:38.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-thayer-q983608"
name: "John Thayer"
slug: "john-thayer-q983608"
description: "John Borland Thayer II was an American businessman who had a thirty-year career as an executive with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was a director and second vice-president of the company when he died at age 49 in the sinking of the RMS Titanic, on April 15, 1912. In his youth, Thayer was also a prominent sportsman, playing baseball and lacrosse for the University of Pennsylvania and first-class cricket for the Philadelphian cricket team."
tagline: "American sportsman and businessman (1862-1912)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Borland_Thayer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1862-04-21"
deathDate: "1912-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.884492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "約翰·伯納德·賽耶二世"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون بي. ثاير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون بي. ثاير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Thayer"
    title: "John B. Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Thayer"
    title: "John B. Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Thayer"
    title: "John B. Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Borland_Thayer"
    title: "John Borland Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Thayer"
    title: "John B. Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Borland_Thayer"
    title: "John Borland Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Thayer"
    title: "John B. Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9C%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "ஜான் தேயர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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