# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-w-mackay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:49:43.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-w-mackay"
name: "John W. Mackay"
slug: "john-w-mackay"
description: "John William Mackay was an Irish-American industrialist who rose from rags to riches. Born into abject poverty and raised in the slums of New York City, Mackay joined in the California gold rush in 1851. He did not find gold but moved to Nevada in 1859 and found silver. He became one of the four Bonanza Kings, a San Francisco partnership which capitalized on the wealth generated by the silver mines at the Comstock Lode in Nevada. He was one of the richest Americans in his time. He also headed a telegraph business that laid transatlantic cables, and he helped finance the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway Company."
tagline: "Irish-American financier, prospector and mine operator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_William_Mackay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1831-11-28"
deathDate: "1902-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.569225333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Mackay"
    title: "John William Mackay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "جون ويليام ماكاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Mackay"
    title: "John William Mackay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Mackay"
    title: "John William Mackay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Mackay"
    title: "John William Mackay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Mackay"
    title: "John William Mackay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_MacKay"
    title: "John William MacKay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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