# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-babson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:22:09.053Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-babson"
name: "Roger Babson"
slug: "roger-babson"
description: "Roger Ward Babson was an American entrepreneur, Georgist economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for predicting the Wall Street crash of 1929 and founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas."
tagline: "American entrepreneur and business theorist (1875–1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RogerBabson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1875-07-06"
deathDate: "1967-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.401373333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump