# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-e-widener
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:40:24.432Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-e-widener"
name: "Joseph E. Widener"
slug: "joseph-e-widener"
description: "Joseph Early Widener was an American Thoroughbred horse race owner, breeder, and racetrack owner. He raised seventy-nine stakes race winners, was president of Belmont Park racetrack, and owned Hialeah Park racetrack. He was a member of the wealthy Widener family and managed the family estate. He was an art collector who inherited and refined his father Peter Arrell Browne Widener's vast art collection displayed at their Lynnewood Hall estate. He donated over 2,000 works of art to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C."
tagline: "American businessman and art collector (1871-1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Oswald_Hornby_Joseph_Birley_-_Joseph_E._Widener_-_1994.32.1_-_National_Gallery_of_Art.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1871-08-19"
deathDate: "1943-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.9
  momentum:             9.267015706806282
  historical:           3.097194666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "چوزيف اى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Widener"
    title: "Joseph E. Widener"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Уайденер, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "جوزف ای وائیڈنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4468398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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