# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-y-brown-jr
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:43:36.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-y-brown-jr"
name: "John Y. Brown Jr."
slug: "john-y-brown-jr"
description: "John Young Brown Jr. was an American politician and entrepreneur from Kentucky. He served as the 55th governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983, and built Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) into a multimillion-dollar restaurant chain."
tagline: "55th governor of Kentucky (1933–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Y._Brown_Jr._(KY).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1933-12-28"
deathDate: "2022-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.14
  momentum:             4.358353510895882
  historical:           12.74447866666667
  currentAttention:     24.21307506053268
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6086874/"
    handle:    "nm6086874"
sources:
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    title: "جان وای. براون.جی."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Y. Brown junior"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Y._Brown_Jr."
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'ון י. בראון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョン・Y・ブラウン・ジュニア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "존 Y. 브라운 주니어"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_Brown_minor"
    title: "Ioannes Brown minor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Y._Brown_jr."
    title: "John Y. Brown jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Y._Brown_Jr."
    title: "John Y. Brown Jr."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump