# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-gompertz
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:17:32.811Z

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name: "Benjamin Gompertz"
slug: "benjamin-gompertz"
description: "Benjamin Gompertz was an English self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Gompertz is now best known for his Gompertz law of mortality, a demographic model published in 1825. He was the brother of the early animal rights activist and inventor Lewis Gompertz and the poet Isaac Gompertz."
tagline: "British mathematician (1779-1865)"
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birthDate: "1779-03-05"
deathDate: "1865-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump