# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michele-ferrero
# Generated: 2026-09-04T22:03:43.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michele-ferrero"
name: "Michele Ferrero"
slug: "michele-ferrero"
description: "Michele Ferrero was an Italian billionaire businessman. He owned the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA, Europe's second-largest confectionery company, which he developed from the small bakery and café of his father in Alba, Piedmont. His first big success was his work with Francesco Rivella in adding vegetable oil to the traditional gianduja paste to make the popular spread Nutella."
tagline: "Italian entrepreneur (1925-2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Michele_Ferrero.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1925-04-26"
deathDate: "2015-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.36306
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump