# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-rank-q15996154
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:44:12.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-rank-q15996154"
name: "Joseph Rank"
slug: "joseph-rank-q15996154"
description: "Joseph Rank was the founder of Joseph Rank Limited, once one of Britain's largest flour milling and bakery companies. He built his company into a leader in all aspects of the industry including the operation of Flour Mills, Bakeries and Retail outlets. After Rank's death in 1943 the company continued to grow under his son's stewardship before merging with Hovis MacDougall in the 1960s to form Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM)."
tagline: "British businessman"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Joseph_Rank_in_1937.jpg/330px-Joseph_Rank_in_1937.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1854-03-28"
deathDate: "1943-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.23
  momentum:             1.751152073732719
  historical:           1.542513333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rank"
    title: "Joseph Rank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15996154"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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