# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/t-boone-pickens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:29:26.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/t-boone-pickens"
name: "T. Boone Pickens"
slug: "t-boone-pickens"
description: "Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. was an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chaired the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. Later in life, he was a prominent conservative activist and philanthropist. At the time of Pickens' death in 2019, his net worth stood at $500 million, after he had given away more than $1 billion to various philanthropic causes."
tagline: "American financier; Chairman, BP Capital Management (1928-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/T._Boone_Pickens_discusses_the_impact_of_shale_natural_gas_on_the_American_economy_at_the_Hudson_Institute_on_6_April_2016_-_25_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1928-05-22"
deathDate: "2019-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           9.060712
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump