# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-mellon-scaife
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:24:20.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-mellon-scaife"
name: "Richard Mellon Scaife"
slug: "richard-mellon-scaife"
description: "Richard Mellon Scaife was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In 2005, Scaife was number 238 on the Forbes 400, with a personal fortune of $1.2 billion. By 2013, Scaife had dropped to number 371 on the listing, with a personal fortune of $1.4 billion."
tagline: "American Mellon family heir, and newspaper owner (1932–2014)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Richard_M._Scaife.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1932-07-03"
deathDate: "2014-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.14
  momentum:             2.1266486104569
  historical:           7.931682666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard Mellon Scaife"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد ميلون سكيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife"
    title: "Richard Mellon Scaife"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife"
    title: "Richard Mellon Scaife"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife"
    title: "Richard Mellon Scaife"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife"
    title: "Richard Mellon Scaife"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scaife"
    title: "Richard Scaife"
    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%A1%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95"
    title: "リチャード・メロン・スカイフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Меллон Скейф, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q541074"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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