# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-f-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:17.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-f-smith"
name: "Robert F. Smith"
slug: "robert-f-smith"
description: "Robert Frederick Smith is an American businessman. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Globally, Smith is among the ranking The World's Billionaires with a net worth exceeding US$10.6 billion as of 2025. From 2000 to 2015, Smith engaged in tax evasion, and in 2020, he settled one of the largest individual tax fraud cases in United States history, agreeing to repay $139M and testify against the financial advisors he had hired."
tagline: "American businessman and philanthropist (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_F._Smith%2C_2018_(crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Investors"
  slug: "investors"
profileType:
  name: "Investor"
  slug: "investor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1962-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.04
  momentum:             15
  historical:           10.79415466666667
  currentAttention:     12.36
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 17
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RFS_Vista"
    handle:    "RFS_Vista"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/robertfredericksmith/"
    handle:    "robertfredericksmith"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/robertsmithvista"
    handle:    "robertsmithvista"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertfredericksmith/"
    handle:    "robertfredericksmith"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2946138/"
    handle:    "nm2946138"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://robertsmith.com/"
sources:
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    title: "羅拔·費德歷·史密夫 (投資者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A5%D9%81._%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AB%D9%85%D8%B1)"
    title: "روبرت إف. سميث (مستثمر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Smith_(investor)"
    title: "Robert F. Smith (investor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Робърт Смит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frederick_Smith"
    title: "Robert Frederick Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Smith_(investor)"
    title: "Robert F. Smith (investor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frederick_Smith"
    title: "Robert Frederick Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9_(%E6%8A%95%E8%B3%87%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "ロバート・スミス (投資家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Smith"
    title: "Robert F. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frederick_Smith"
    title: "Robert Frederick Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%85%E6%8B%94%C2%B7%E8%B2%BB%E5%BE%B7%E6%AD%B7%C2%B7%E5%8F%B2%E5%AF%86%E5%A4%AB_(%E6%8A%95%E8%B3%87%E4%BA%BA)"
    title: "羅拔·費德歷·史密夫 (投資人)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21175252"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1956432"
    title: "Robert F. Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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