# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shawn-fain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:48:37.612Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shawn-fain"
name: "Shawn Fain"
slug: "shawn-fain"
description: "Shawn Fain is an American labor unionist who has served as president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) since March 2023. An electrician by trade, he worked at a Stellantis automotive parts plant in Kokomo, Indiana. He has been a UAW member since 1994, and was a member of the now-dissolved reform caucus, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD). The first UAW president directly elected by union members, Fain was a central figure in the 2023 United Auto Workers strike."
tagline: "American labor leader (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shawn_Fain_portrait_(SOTU_2024)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1968-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.46
  momentum:             12.06477732793522
  historical:           5.109512
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ShawnFainUAW"
    handle:    "ShawnFainUAW"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Fain"
    title: "Shawn Fain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Fain"
    title: "Shawn Fain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "שון פיין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Fain"
    title: "Shawn Fain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%82%96%E6%81%A9%C2%B7%E8%B2%BB%E6%81%A9"
    title: "肖恩·費恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117716066"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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