# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-gurley-drew
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:21:29.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-gurley-drew"
name: "Richard Gurley Drew"
slug: "richard-gurley-drew"
description: "Richard Gurley Drew was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape."
tagline: "American inventor (1899–1980)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Richard_Gurley_Drew.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1899-06-22"
deathDate: "1980-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.75
  momentum:             16.58671586715867
  historical:           7.233912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Дрю, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ريتشارد غورلي درو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد جورلى درو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gurley_Drew"
    title: "Richard Gurley Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gurley_Drew"
    title: "Richard Gurley Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Drew"
    title: "Richard Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gurley_Drew"
    title: "Richard Gurley Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gurley_Drew"
    title: "Richard Gurley Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2149367"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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