# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bela-barenyi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:32:45.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bela-barenyi"
name: "Béla Barényi"
slug: "bela-barenyi"
description: "Béla Barényi was an ethnic Hungarian engineer from Austria-Hungary, who was a prolific inventor, sometimes even compared to Thomas Edison. Barényi made numerous crash protection inventions, and is therefore regarded as the father of passive safety in automotive design. \"The lives of thousands of people have probably been saved thanks to Barényi's work.\""
tagline: "Hungarian engineer and inventor (1907–1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bar%C3%A9nyi_B%C3%A9la-biztons%C3%A1gi_fejleszt%C3%A9s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1907-03-01"
deathDate: "1997-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.8
  momentum:             0.1118151323145733
  historical:           14.297668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Бела Барені"
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    title: "بيلا بارينى"
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    title: "Béla Barényi"
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    title: "Béla Barényi"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bar%C3%A9nyi"
    title: "Béla Barényi"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bar%C3%A9nyi"
    title: "Béla Barényi"
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    title: "Barényi Béla"
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    title: "Béla Barényi"
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    title: "Béla Barényi"
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    title: "Béla Barényi"
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    title: "Béla Barényi"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bar%C3%A9nyi"
    title: "Béla Barényi"
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    title: "Барени, Бела"
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    title: "Béla Barényi"
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    title: "Béla Barényi"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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