# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-sullivan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:42:16.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-sullivan"
name: "Leon Sullivan"
slug: "leon-sullivan"
description: "Leon Howard Sullivan was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist. Sullivan died of leukemia in a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital at the age of 78."
tagline: "Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1922–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leon_Sullivan.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1922-10-16"
deathDate: "2001-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.889274666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sullivan"
    title: "Leon Sullivan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ليون سوليفان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sullivan"
    title: "Leon Sullivan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sullivan"
    title: "Leon Sullivan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Howard_Sullivan"
    title: "Leon Howard Sullivan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sullivan"
    title: "Leon Sullivan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2460277"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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