# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexandre-debain
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:48:07.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexandre-debain"
name: "Alexandre Debain"
slug: "alexandre-debain"
description: "Alexandre-François Debain was a French inventor who developed the harmonium. He made a new action system, in which, when depressing a note on the keyboard, a valve opened thereby emitting sound from the instrument. He patented it in Paris in 1842."
tagline: "French harmonium inventor (1809-1877)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Harmonium_Debain.jpg/330px-Harmonium_Debain.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1809-07-06"
deathDate: "1877-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.91
  momentum:             10.03619909502262
  historical:           8.742297333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Дебен, Александр Франсуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "الكسندر ديبين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Fran%C3%A7ois_Debain"
    title: "Alexandre-François Debain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Fran%C3%A7ois_Debain"
    title: "Alexandre-François Debain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Fran%C3%A7ois_Debain"
    title: "Alexandre-François Debain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Debain"
    title: "Alexandre Debain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Debain"
    title: "Alexandre Debain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Fran%C3%A7ois_Debain"
    title: "Alexandre-François Debain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Debain"
    title: "Alexandre Debain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Fran%C3%A7ois_Debain"
    title: "Alexandre-François Debain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q774040"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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