# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-l-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:59:50.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-l-johnson"
name: "Robert L. Johnson"
slug: "robert-l-johnson"
description: "Robert Louis Johnson is an American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, and investor. He is the co-founder of BET, which was acquired by Viacom in 2001. He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in various business sectors. Johnson is the former majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. He became the first African American billionaire in 2001. Johnson's companies have counted among the most prominent African-American businesses in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."
tagline: "American businessman (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_L._Johnson_watches_Donald_Trump.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1946-04-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.920256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rljcompanies.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert L. Johnson"
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    title: "رابرت لوئیس جانسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert L. Johnson"
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    title: "Robert L. Johnson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump