# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-smith-hallidie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:32:14.821Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-smith-hallidie"
name: "Andrew Smith Hallidie"
slug: "andrew-smith-hallidie"
description: "Andrew Smith Hallidie was an American entrepreneur who was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco. This was the world's first practical cable car system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day San Francisco cable car system, although both claims are open to dispute. He also introduced the manufacture of wire rope to California, and at an early age was a prolific builder of bridges in the Californian interior."
tagline: "American businessman (1836–1900)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrew_Smith_Hallidie.jpg?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: "1836-03-16"
deathDate: "1900-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.81296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%89"
    title: "اندرو سميث هاليدى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Smith_Hallidie"
    title: "Andrew Smith Hallidie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Smith_Hallidie"
    title: "Andrew Smith Hallidie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Smith_Hallidie"
    title: "Andrew Smith Hallidie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Smith_Hallidie"
    title: "Andrew Smith Hallidie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507536"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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