{"id":"mike-ashley","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mike-ashley","language":"en","name":"Mike Ashley","name_en":"Mike Ashley","name_ne":null,"description":"English billionaire retail entrepreneur/sporting goods market/former co-owner of Newcastle United","headline":"English billionaire retail entrepreneur/sporting goods market/former co-owner of Newcastle United","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Michael James Wallace Ashley (born 9 September 1964) is a British  entrepreneur who is the founder and former chief executive of Frasers Group plc (formerly Sports Direct International). He owned Newcastle United Football Club between 2007 and 2021.","summary_more":["According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2026, Ashley was the 48th richest person in the UK with an estimated net worth of £3.44 billion. In August 2021, Ashley announced that he intended to step down as chief executive of Frasers Group in May 2022, but would remain a director of the main board. He was succeeded as chief executive by his son-in-law, Michael Murray, on 1 May 2022. In September 2022, Frasers Group announced that Ashley would not stand for re-election as a director and would leave the board following the company's annual general meeting on 19 October 2022."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"9 September 1964","date":"1964-09-09"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q554077#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Burnham","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2259685"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q554077#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United Kingdom","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q145"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q554077#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"chief executive officer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484876"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q554077#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Burnham Grammar School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4999744"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q554077#P69"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ashley_(businessman)","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q554077"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Mike Ashley born?","a":"Mike Ashley was born on 9 September 1964 in Burnham."},{"q":"Where did Mike Ashley study?","a":"Mike Ashley was educated at Burnham Grammar School."}],"related":[{"name":"Bernie Ecclestone","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bernie-ecclestone"},{"name":"Doug Perkins","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/doug-perkins"},{"name":"Gopichand Hinduja","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gopichand-hinduja"},{"name":"Ian Livingstone","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ian-livingstone"},{"name":"Jayshree Ullal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jayshree-ullal"},{"name":"Jim Ratcliffe","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jim-ratcliffe"},{"name":"Michael Kadoorie","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/michael-kadoorie"},{"name":"Michael Moritz","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/michael-moritz"},{"name":"Philip Green","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/philip-green"},{"name":"Trevor Hemmings","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/trevor-hemmings"},{"name":"David Beckham","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/david-beckham"},{"name":"Victoria Beckham","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/victoria-beckham"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/mike-ashley-867480b2e4.jpg","width":500,"height":792,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Johnvedwards","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_Ashley_at_Tup_Tup_Palace_(cropped).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Mike Ashley","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ashley_(businessman)","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q554077","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q554077","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Mike Ashley at Tup Tup Palace (cropped).jpg by Johnvedwards (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_Ashley_at_Tup_Tup_Palace_(cropped).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Mike Ashley, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Mike Ashley at Tup Tup Palace (cropped).jpg — Johnvedwards, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Mike Ashley\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/mike-ashley. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/mike-ashley","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/mike-ashley","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/mike-ashley?lang=ne"}}