# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephan-schmidheiny
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:31:58.212Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephan-schmidheiny"
name: "Stephan Schmidheiny"
slug: "stephan-schmidheiny"
description: "Stephan Ernst Schmidheiny is a Swiss billionaire businessman, industrialist and philanthropist who is primarily known for the asbestos scandal and the associated legal cases. As of 2026, despite having been convicted of manslaughter, none of them are currently enforceable."
tagline: "Swiss businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ETH-BIB-Dr._Stephan_Schmidheiny-Com_LC1501-SCH-025-002-001.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1947-10-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.22
  momentum:             0.9005628517823641
  historical:           6.415449333333334
  currentAttention:     5.003126954346468
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.stephanschmidheiny.com/en/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Schmidheiny"
    title: "Stephan Schmidheiny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "ستيفان شميدهينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Schmidheiny"
    title: "Stephan Schmidheiny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Schmidheiny"
    title: "Stephan Schmidheiny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Schmidheiny"
    title: "Stephan Schmidheiny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Schmidheiny"
    title: "Stephan Schmidheiny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Schmidheiny"
    title: "Stephan Schmidheiny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q684167"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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