# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvin-simon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:01:25.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvin-simon"
name: "Melvin Simon"
slug: "melvin-simon"
description: "Melvin Simon was an American businessman and film producer, who co-founded the largest shopping mall company in the United States, Simon Property Group, with his younger brother, Herb Simon. The pair jointly purchased the Indiana Pacers in 1983."
tagline: "American businessman (1926-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Cropped_Photo_of_Melvin_Simon.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-10-21"
deathDate: "2009-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             5.554772813393503
  historical:           4.687012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800299/"
    handle:    "nm0800299"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ملفين سيمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ملفين سيمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Simon"
    title: "Melvin Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ملوین سایمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6814070"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66711"
    title: "Melvin Simon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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