# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-stephen-sackler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:07:14.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-stephen-sackler"
name: "Richard Stephen Sackler"
slug: "richard-stephen-sackler"
description: "Richard Stephen Sackler is an American businessman, pharmaceutical entrepreneur and physician who was the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, a now-defunct pharmaceutical company. Under his leadership of Purdue, the company developed the drug OxyContin, an opioid which is widely believed to have spearheaded the opioid epidemic in the United States. Sackler and Purdue's role in the epidemic led to many lawsuits and fines, with the company filing bankruptcy in 2019. The company's demise and unethical marketing tactics and strategies were the subject of the 2021 Hulu miniseries Dopesick and the 2023 Netflix miniseries Painkiller, in which Sackler is portrayed by Michael Stuhlbarg and Matthew Broderick, respectively."
tagline: "American billionaire businessman (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Sackler_deposition_screenshot.jpg?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: "1945-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.57
  momentum:             4.527891813571602
  historical:           8.367334666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sakler"
    title: "Richard Sakler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشارد ستيفن ساكلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sackler"
    title: "Richard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sackler"
    title: "Richard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sackler"
    title: "Richard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sackler"
    title: "Richard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sackler"
    title: "Richard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sackler"
    title: "Richard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B1%DA%88_%D8%B3%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "رچرڈ سیکلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42306725"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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