# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/minor-cooper-keith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:35:08.690Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/minor-cooper-keith"
name: "Minor Cooper Keith"
slug: "minor-cooper-keith"
description: "Minor Cooper Keith was an American businessman whose railroad, commercial agriculture, and cargo liner enterprises had a major impact on the national economies of the Central American countries, as well as on the Caribbean region of Colombia. Keith's work on the Costa Rican railroad to the Caribbean, a project begun by his uncle Henry Meiggs, led him to become involved in the large-scale export of bananas to the United States. In 1899, Keith's banana-trading concerns were absorbed into the powerful United Fruit Company, of which he became vice-president. Keith was also involved in a number of other business ventures, including gold mining in Costa Rica and real estate development in the US."
tagline: "American businessman (1848–1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Minor_Keith.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: "1848-01-19"
deathDate: "1929-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.92
  momentum:             4.784625579854208
  historical:           6.613649333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Keith"
    title: "Minor Keith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "مينور كوپير كيث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Cooper_Keith"
    title: "Minor Cooper Keith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Cooper_Keith"
    title: "Minor Cooper Keith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Keith"
    title: "Minor Keith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Keith"
    title: "Minor Keith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_C._Keith"
    title: "Minor C. Keith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q594946"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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