# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andre-cassagnes
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:53:25.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andre-cassagnes"
name: "André Cassagnes"
slug: "andre-cassagnes"
description: "André Cassagnes was a French inventor, electrical technician, toymaker, and kite designer. Cassagnes is best known as the inventor of the Etch A Sketch, a popular mechanical drawing toy manufactured since 2016 by Spin Master, formerly by the Ohio Art Company."
tagline: "French inventor (1926-2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Andr%C3%A9_Cassagnes_lance_un_navigateur_-_Vincennes_-_dsdm04581_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Andr%C3%A9_Cassagnes_lance_un_navigateur_-_Vincennes_-_dsdm04581_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-09-23"
deathDate: "2013-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.91
  momentum:             1.546391752577319
  historical:           9.415156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "安德烈·卡薩涅"
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    title: "اندريه كاساجن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Cassagnes"
    title: "André Cassagnes"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Cassagnes"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Cassagnes"
    title: "André Cassagnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Cassagnes"
    title: "André Cassagnes"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Cassagnes"
    title: "André Cassagnes"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5"
    title: "Кассань, Андре"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump