# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-winton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:13.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-winton"
name: "Alexander Winton"
slug: "alexander-winton"
description: "Alexander Winton was a Scottish-American bicycle, automobile, and diesel engine designer and inventor, as well as a businessman and racecar driver. Winton founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company in 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio, making the city an important hub of early automotive manufacturing. His pioneering achievements in the automotive industry included taking one of the first long-distance journeys in America by car and developing one of the first commercial diesel engines. Winton left the automotive manufacturing business when he liquidated his car company in 1924 to focus on his powertrain engineering firm, Winton Gas Engine & Mfg. Co., which he had established twelve years earlier to focus on engine development. This business was sold to General Motors in 1930 and became the Cleveland Diesel Engine Division. Winton died in 1932 and is interred in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland."
tagline: "British automotive pioneer (1860–1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Winton.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1860-06-20"
deathDate: "1932-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.52
  momentum:             7.670831157353472
  historical:           10.0315
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Александер Вінтон"
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    title: "ألكسندر وينتون"
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    title: "Alexander Winton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Winton"
    title: "Alexander Winton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Winton"
    title: "Alexander Winton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "الکساندر وینتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Winton"
    title: "Alexander Winton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Winton"
    title: "Alexander Winton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "アレグザンダー・ウィントン"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Winton"
    title: "Alexander Winton"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Winton"
    title: "Alexander Winton"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491634"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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