# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xavier-niel
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:41.826Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/xavier-niel"
name: "Xavier Niel"
slug: "xavier-niel"
description: "Xavier Niel is a French billionaire businessman. He is involved in the telecommunications and technology industry and is the founder and majority shareholder of the French Internet service provider and mobile operator Iliad trading under the Free brand. He is also co-owner of the newspaper Le Monde, co-owner of the rights of the song \"My Way\" and owner of Monaco Telecom, Salt Mobile and Eir. He is chairman and chief strategy officer for Iliad, and also a board member of KKR, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and ByteDance."
tagline: "French billionaire businessman (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Xavier_Niel004.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1967-08-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.53627066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/xavier75"
    handle:    "xavier75"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/xavier75016/"
    handle:    "xavier75016"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "زاڤير نيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel"
    title: "Xavier Niel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel"
    title: "Xavier Niel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel"
    title: "Xavier Niel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "خاویر نایل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel"
    title: "Xavier Niel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%99%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C"
    title: "קסבייה ניאל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel"
    title: "Xavier Niel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel"
    title: "Xavier Niel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%9A%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8C%D0%B5"
    title: "Ньель, Ксавье"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel"
    title: "Xavier Niel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1450891"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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