# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alastair-pilkington
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:53:38.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alastair-pilkington"
name: "Alastair Pilkington"
slug: "alastair-pilkington"
description: "Sir Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, known as Sir Alastair Pilkington, was a British engineer and businessman who invented and perfected the float glass process for commercial manufacturing of plate glass."
tagline: "British inventor (1920–1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Alastair_Pilkington.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-01-07"
deathDate: "1995-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.3
  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "அலஸ்ட்டயர் பில்கிங்டன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alastair Pilkington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Pilkington"
    title: "Alastair Pilkington"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Pilkington"
    title: "Alastair Pilkington"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Pilkington"
    title: "Alastair Pilkington"
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    title: "Alastair Pilkington"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Pilkington"
    title: "Alastair Pilkington"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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