# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barney-barnato
# Generated: 2026-09-02T11:15:02.351Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barney-barnato"
name: "Barney Barnato"
slug: "barney-barnato"
description: "Barney Barnato was a British Randlord and diamond magnate who was one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later, gold mining in South Africa from the 1870s up to World War I. He was known as a rival of Cecil Rhodes."
tagline: "British businessman (1851–1897)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barney_Barnato00.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1851-02-21"
deathDate: "1897-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.78
  momentum:             1.161731207289294
  historical:           7.740286666666666
  currentAttention:     6.454062262718301
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Barney Barnato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Barnato"
    title: "Barney Barnato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "بارنى بارناتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Barnato"
    title: "Barney Barnato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Barnato"
    title: "Barney Barnato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Barnato"
    title: "Barney Barnato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Barnato"
    title: "Barney Barnato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Barnato"
    title: "Barney Barnato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Барнато, Барни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q808476"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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