# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-bechtel-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:23:37.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-bechtel-jr"
name: "Stephen Bechtel, Jr."
slug: "stephen-bechtel-jr"
description: "Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr. was an American billionaire businessman, civil engineer, and co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation. He was the son of Stephen Davison Bechtel Sr. and grandson of Warren A. Bechtel, who founded the Bechtel Corporation. He was known for expanding the global footprint of the corporation through several of its international projects. Some of the projects executed under his leadership of the company included King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh as well as Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia as well as oil platforms in the North Sea, liquefied natural gas plants in Algeria, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates."
tagline: "American businessman (1925–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Bechtel%2C_Jr._at_the_2010_California_STEM_Summit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-05-10"
deathDate: "2021-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.765517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ستيفن بكتل الابن"
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    title: "Stephen Bechtel Jr."
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bechtel_Jr."
    title: "Stephen Bechtel Jr."
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bechtel_Jr."
    title: "Stephen Bechtel Jr."
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%DA%86%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "استفان بچل جونیور"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bechtel"
    title: "Stephen Bechtel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump