# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcos-galperin
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:41:04.221Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcos-galperin"
name: "Marcos Galperin"
slug: "marcos-galperin"
description: "Marcos Eduardo Galperin is an Argentine businessman and technology entrepreneur, best known as co-founder of Mercado Libre. He led the company as Chief Executive Officer for more than two decades and will become Executive Chairman on 1 January 2026. With an estimated net worth of about US$9.3 billion, he is widely regarded as Argentina’s richest individual."
tagline: "Argentine businessman AND jewish"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marcos_Galperin_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Argentina"
  isoCode: "AR"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1971-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.969396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Galper%C3%ADn"
    title: "Marcos Galperín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Galperin"
    title: "Marcos Galperin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Galperin"
    title: "Marcos Galperin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Galperin"
    title: "Marcos Galperin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Galperin"
    title: "Marcos Galperin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5996574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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