# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-ballin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:00:16.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-ballin"
name: "Albert Ballin"
slug: "albert-ballin"
description: "Albert Ballin was a German shipping magnate. He was the general director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) or Hamburg-America Line, which for a time was the world's largest shipping company. Being the inventor of the concept of the cruise ship, he is known as the father of modern cruise ship travel. Albert Ballin was a risk-taker who was willing to challenge his colleagues, foreign competitors, and domestic politics in order to build a successful shipping company. He focused on British rivals and was determined to expand HAPAG's global reach, he also worked closely with the Kaiser and supported expansion of the German navy."
tagline: "German businessman (1857-1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albert_Ballin_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1857-08-15"
deathDate: "1918-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.68100533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Albert Ballin"
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    title: "Albert Ballin"
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    title: "ألبرت بالين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "البرت بالين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Albert Ballin"
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    title: "Άλμπερτ Μπαλλίν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ballin"
    title: "Albert Ballin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ballin"
    title: "Albert Ballin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ballin"
    title: "Albert Ballin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ballin"
    title: "Albert Ballin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "אלברט באלין"
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    title: "Albert Ballin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Albert Ballin"
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    title: "Albert Ballin"
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    title: "Albert Ballin"
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    title: "Баллин, Альберт"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump