# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mellody-hobson
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:33:52.494Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mellody-hobson"
name: "Mellody Hobson"
slug: "mellody-hobson"
description: "Mellody Louise Hobson Lucas is an American businesswoman who is president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, and former chair of Starbucks. She is the former chairman of DreamWorks Animation, having stepped down after negotiating the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., by NBCUniversal in August 2016. In 2017, she became the first African-American woman to head The Economic Club of Chicago. On December 26, 2020 it was announced she would become chair of Starbucks in 2021, thus becoming the first black woman to chair an S&P 500 company, making her one of the highest profile corporate directors in the US. She continued in the role of chair until August 2024."
tagline: "American businesswoman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mellody_Hobson_(2007).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1969-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.92
  momentum:             5.1876790792263
  historical:           13.015524
  currentAttention:     24.72667175184338
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mellodyhobson/"
    handle:    "mellodyhobson"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3473170/"
    handle:    "nm3473170"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ميلودي هوبسون"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mellody Hobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellody_Hobson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ملودی هابسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mellody Hobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Մելոդի Հոբսոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mellody Hobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mellody Hobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mellody Hobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хобсон, Меллоди"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2474145"
    title: "Mellody Hobson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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