# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-h-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:25:59.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-h-lee"
name: "Thomas H. Lee"
slug: "thomas-h-lee"
description: "Thomas Haskell Lee was an American billionaire businessman, financier, and investor credited with being one of the early pioneers in private equity and specifically leveraged buyouts. Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL), the firm he founded in 1974, is among the oldest and largest private equity firms globally. At the time of his death, he was the managing partner of Lee Equity Partners, a private equity firm he founded in 2006 after leaving Thomas H. Lee Partners. According to Forbes, he had a net worth of $2 billion at the time of his death."
tagline: "American investor (1944–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Investors"
  slug: "investors"
profileType:
  name: "Investor"
  slug: "investor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1944-03-27"
deathDate: "2023-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.07
  momentum:             4.177215189873416
  historical:           6.192193333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 45
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%86_%D9%84%DB%8C_(%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C)"
    title: "تھامس ایچ لی (کاروباری)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Lee_(businessman)"
    title: "Thomas H. Lee (businessman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Lee_(%C9%97an_kasuwa)"
    title: "Thomas H. Lee (ɗan kasuwa)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1_%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "תומאס לי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Lee_(mfanyabiashara)"
    title: "Thomas H. Lee (mfanyabiashara)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Lee_(i%C5%9F_adam%C4%B1)"
    title: "Thomas H. Lee (iş adamı)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%89%98%E9%A9%AC%E6%96%AF%C2%B7H%C2%B7%E6%9D%8E"
    title: "托马斯·H·李"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7790292"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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