# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andre-chapelon
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:42:18.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andre-chapelon"
name: "André Chapelon"
slug: "andre-chapelon"
description: "André Chapelon was a French mechanical engineer and designer of advanced steam locomotives. A graduate engineer of Ecole Centrale Paris, he was one of very few locomotive designers who brought a rigorous scientific method to their design, and he sought to apply up-to-date theories and knowledge in subjects such as thermodynamics, and gas and fluid flow. Chapelon's work was an early example of what would later be called modern steam, and influenced the work of many later designers of those locomotives, such as Livio Dante Porta."
tagline: "French steam locomotive engineer (1892–1978)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1892-10-26"
deathDate: "1978-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.771817333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon"
    title: "André Chapelon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "اندريه تشابلون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon"
    title: "André Chapelon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon"
    title: "André Chapelon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon"
    title: "André Chapelon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon"
    title: "André Chapelon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon"
    title: "André Chapelon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon"
    title: "André Chapelon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "アンドレ・シャプロン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon"
    title: "André Chapelon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517749"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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