# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-thompson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:17:03.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-thompson"
name: "Mark Thompson"
slug: "mark-thompson"
description: "Sir Mark John Thompson is a British–American media executive who is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ancestry, the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, and CEO of CNN. He is the former president and CEO of The New York Times Company. From 2004 to 2012, he was Director-General of the BBC, and before that was the Chief Executive of Channel 4. In 2009 Thompson was ranked as the 65th most powerful person in the world by Forbes magazine. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017."
tagline: "Television executive"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Thompson3_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1957-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.87
  momentum:             3.636363636363637
  historical:           9.876386666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson"
    title: "Mark Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "مارك تومسون (رجل أعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارك تومسون (اصحاب بيزنيس من المملكه المتحده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson"
    title: "Mark Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(Medienmanager)"
    title: "Mark Thompson (Medienmanager)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BA_%CE%A4%CF%8C%CE%BC%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD"
    title: "Μαρκ Τόμσον"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(media_executive)"
    title: "Mark Thompson (media executive)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مارک تامسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(producteur)"
    title: "Mark Thompson (producteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%ED%81%AC_%ED%86%B0%ED%94%84%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "마크 톰프슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson"
    title: "Mark Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson"
    title: "Mark Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1060609"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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