# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-hopkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:29:56.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-hopkins"
name: "Mark Hopkins"
slug: "mark-hopkins"
description: "Mark Hopkins Jr. was an American railroad executive. He was one of four principal investors that funded Theodore D. Judah's idea of building a railway over the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento, California, to Promontory, Utah. They formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861."
tagline: "American businessman, railway entrepreneur (1813–1878)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Hopkins_1813-1878.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1813-09-01"
deathDate: "1878-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.77
  momentum:             6.682464454976304
  historical:           5.702558666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hopkins_Jr."
    title: "Mark Hopkins Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "مارك هوبكينز جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hopkins_(Unternehmer)"
    title: "Mark Hopkins (Unternehmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hopkins_Jr."
    title: "Mark Hopkins Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hopkins_Jr."
    title: "Mark Hopkins Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hopkins"
    title: "Mark Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1900117"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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