# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aurel-persu
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:11:14.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aurel-persu"
name: "Aurel Persu"
slug: "aurel-persu"
description: "Aurel Persu was a Romanian engineer and pioneer car designer, the first to place the wheels inside the body of the car as part of his attempt to reach the perfect aerodynamic shape for automobiles. He came to the conclusion that the perfectly aerodynamic automobile must have the shape of a falling water drop, taking it one step further toward that shape than the car Austrian Edmund Rumpler had presented in Berlin in 1921."
tagline: "Romanian scientist (1890-1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stamps_of_Romania%2C_2010-79.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1890-12-26"
deathDate: "1977-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.05
  momentum:             0.1522842639593909
  historical:           7.881066666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D1%83%2C_%D0%90%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Персу, Аурел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Persu"
    title: "Aurel Persu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Per%C8%99u"
    title: "Aurel Perșu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Persu"
    title: "Aurel Persu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Persu"
    title: "Aurel Persu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Persu"
    title: "Aurel Persu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Persu"
    title: "Aurel Persu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Persu"
    title: "Aurel Persu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Persu"
    title: "Aurel Persu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q458993"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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