# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-o-kelso
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:07:05.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-o-kelso"
name: "Louis O. Kelso"
slug: "louis-o-kelso"
description: "Louis Orth Kelso was a political economist, corporate and financial lawyer, author, lecturer and merchant banker who is chiefly remembered today as the inventor and pioneer of the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), invented to enable working people without savings to buy stock in their employer company and pay for it out of its future dividend yield. He advocated for the Third Way."
tagline: "American lawyer and economist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1c/Louis_Kelso_%281964%29.jpg/330px-Louis_Kelso_%281964%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1913-04-12"
deathDate: "1991-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.82
  momentum:             15.68401000119061
  historical:           5.685674666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_O._Kelso"
    title: "Louis O. Kelso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%88._%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "لويس أو. كيلسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لويس او. كيلسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B7%AF%E6%98%93%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E5%87%AF%E5%B0%94%E7%B4%A2"
    title: "路易斯·凯尔索"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_O._Kelso"
    title: "Louis O. Kelso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD"
    title: "ルイス・ケルソ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15126454"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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