# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-roy-vagelos
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:09:25.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-roy-vagelos"
name: "P. Roy Vagelos"
slug: "p-roy-vagelos"
description: "Pindaros Roy Vagelos is an American physician and business executive, who was president and chief executive officer (1985) and chairman (1986) of the American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.."
tagline: "American biochemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/P._Roy_Vagelos_JPS_2005_03_10_crop.TIF?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.86264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Roy_Vagelos"
    title: "P. Roy Vagelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Roy_Vagelos"
    title: "P. Roy Vagelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Roy_Vagelos"
    title: "P. Roy Vagelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindaros_Roy_Vagelos"
    title: "Pindaros Roy Vagelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9"
    title: "Вагелос, Рой"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7117495"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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