# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-ilitch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:52.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-ilitch"
name: "Mike Ilitch"
slug: "mike-ilitch"
description: "Michael Ilitch Sr., also known as \"Mr. I\", was an American entrepreneur and restaurateur. He founded Little Caesars in 1959 and later owned two Detroit professional sports franchises: the Detroit Red Wings (1982–2017) of the National Hockey League and the Detroit Tigers (1992–2017) of Major League Baseball."
tagline: "Macedonian-American entrepreneur and owner of the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers, founder and owner of Little Caesars Pizza"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Ilitch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1929-07-20"
deathDate: "2017-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.16
  momentum:             2.369639000308547
  historical:           11.46303733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ilitch"
    title: "Mike Ilitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "مايكل إيليتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "ميك ايليتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ilitch"
    title: "Mike Ilitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ilitch"
    title: "Mike Ilitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ilitch"
    title: "Mike Ilitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%86"
    title: "مایک ایلیچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ilitch"
    title: "Mike Ilitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%81"
    title: "マイク・イリッチ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%B4_%EC%9D%BC%EB%A6%AC%EC%B9%98"
    title: "마이클 일리치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BA_%D0%98%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Мајк Илич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ilitch"
    title: "Mike Ilitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ilitch"
    title: "Mike Ilitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719156"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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