{"id":"stephen-bechtel-jr","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/stephen-bechtel-jr","language":"en","name":"Stephen Bechtel Jr.","name_en":"Stephen Bechtel Jr.","name_ne":null,"description":"American businessman (1925–2021)","headline":"American businessman (1925–2021)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr. (May 10, 1925 – March 15, 2021) 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.","summary_more":["Bechtel also served on the board of General Motors and International Business Machines. He had a bachelor's degree from the Purdue University and a master's degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.","At the time of his death, he had a net worth of nearly US$3 billion according to Forbes."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"10 May 1925","date":"1925-05-10"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Oakland","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17042"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"15 March 2021","date":"2021-03-15"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Reston","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1375280"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"civil engineer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13582652"},{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Stanford University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41506"},{"text":"Purdue University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217741"},{"text":"Stanford Graduate School of Business","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1413558"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"National Medal of Technology and Innovation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937629","date":"1991"},{"text":"Hoover Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17132005","date":"1980"},{"text":"Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52382875"},{"text":"Distinguished Eagle Scout Award","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5282987"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bechtel_Jr.","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Stephen Bechtel Jr. born?","a":"Stephen Bechtel Jr. was born on 10 May 1925 in Oakland."},{"q":"Where did Stephen Bechtel Jr. study?","a":"Stephen Bechtel Jr. was educated at Stanford University, Purdue University, Stanford Graduate School of Business."}],"related":[{"name":"Abigail Johnson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abigail-johnson"},{"name":"Alex Karp","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp"},{"name":"Alice Walton","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alice-walton"},{"name":"Arte Moreno","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arte-moreno"},{"name":"Arthur Blank","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-blank"},{"name":"Baiju Bhatt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/baiju-bhatt"},{"name":"Barry Diller","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barry-diller"},{"name":"Ben Chestnut","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ben-chestnut"},{"name":"Bill Ackman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-ackman"},{"name":"Bill Gates","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-gates"},{"name":"Bob Parsons","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bob-parsons"},{"name":"Bobby Murphy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bobby-murphy"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/stephen-bechtel-jr-3e7c10397f.jpg","width":500,"height":314,"license":"CC BY 3.0","credit":"CaSTEMLearning","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephen_Bechtel,_Jr._at_the_2010_California_STEM_Summit.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Stephen Bechtel Jr.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bechtel_Jr.","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q7608688","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608688","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Stephen Bechtel, Jr. at the 2010 California STEM Summit.jpg by CaSTEMLearning (CC BY 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephen_Bechtel,_Jr._at_the_2010_California_STEM_Summit.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 Stephen Bechtel Jr., licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Stephen Bechtel, Jr. at the 2010 California STEM Summit.jpg — CaSTEMLearning, CC BY 3.0.","cite":"\"Stephen Bechtel Jr.\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/stephen-bechtel-jr. Retrieved 14 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-13","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/stephen-bechtel-jr","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/stephen-bechtel-jr","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/stephen-bechtel-jr?lang=ne"}}