# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lyndon-rive
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:09.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lyndon-rive"
name: "Lyndon Rive"
slug: "lyndon-rive"
description: "Lyndon Robert Rive is a South African-American businessman known as the co-founder of SolarCity, and its CEO until 2016. SolarCity was a provider of photovoltaic systems and related services. By the early 2010s, it became the largest residential solar installer in the United States. Rive co-founded SolarCity with his brother Peter in 2006."
tagline: "South African businessman (born 1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lyndon_Rive_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Executives"
  slug: "executives"
profileType:
  name: "Executive"
  slug: "executive"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1977-01-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.23
  momentum:             10
  historical:           10.38267466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  226
  category: 37
sources:
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    title: "Ліндон Райв"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindon_Riv"
    title: "Lindon Riv"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lyndon Rive"
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    title: "Lyndon Rive"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لیندون رایو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Rive"
    title: "Lyndon Rive"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Rive"
    title: "Lyndon Rive"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lyndon Rive"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Rive"
    title: "Lyndon Rive"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Линдон Рајв"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ลินดอน ไรฟ์"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump