# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-dennis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:27:02.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-dennis"
name: "Richard Dennis"
slug: "richard-dennis"
description: "Richard J. Dennis, a commodities speculator once known as the \"Prince of the Pit,\" was born in Chicago, in January, 1949. In the early 1970s, he borrowed $1,600 and reportedly made $350 million. When a futures trading fund under his management incurred significant losses in the stock market crash of 1987 he retired from trading for several years. He has been active in Democratic and Libertarian political causes, most notably in campaigns against drug prohibition."
tagline: "American commodities speculator"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949-01-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.29
  momentum:             0.6999999999999998
  historical:           8.164946666666665
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Річард Денніс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ريتشارد دينيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dennis"
    title: "Richard Dennis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dennis"
    title: "Richard Dennis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "ریچارد دنیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dennis"
    title: "Richard Dennis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dennis"
    title: "Richard Dennis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9"
    title: "リチャード・デニス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EB%93%9C_%EB%8D%B0%EB%8B%88%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "리처드 데니스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2149318"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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