# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bela-szechenyi
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:19:37.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bela-szechenyi"
name: "Béla Széchenyi"
slug: "bela-szechenyi"
description: "Count Béla István Mária Széchenyi von Sárvár-Felsővidék was a Hungarian nobleman. He is best known for organizing an expedition to China, India and Singapore. He was accompanied by the linguist Gábor Bálint, the geologist Lajos Lóczy and geographer Gustav Kreitner."
tagline: "Hungarian traveller, geographer, politician (1837–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Graf_B%C3%A9la_Sz%C3%A9chenyi_der_neue_ungarische_Kronh%C3%BCter_1900_Eduard_Ellinger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1837-02-03"
deathDate: "1918-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.743377333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A1%9E%E5%88%87%E5%B0%BC%C2%B7%E8%B2%9D%E6%8B%89"
    title: "塞切尼·貝拉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_%C5%A0t%C4%9Bp%C3%A1n_Sz%C3%A9chenyi"
    title: "Béla Štěpán Széchenyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Sz%C3%A9chenyi"
    title: "Béla Széchenyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Sz%C3%A9chenyi"
    title: "Béla Széchenyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Sz%C3%A9chenyi"
    title: "Béla Széchenyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Sz%C3%A9chenyi"
    title: "Béla Széchenyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9chenyi_B%C3%A9la"
    title: "Széchenyi Béla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%B8%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Сеченьи, Бела"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Sz%C3%A9chenyi"
    title: "Béla Széchenyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96"
    title: "Бела Сечені"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355532"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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