# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-beyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:07:04.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-beyer"
name: "Charles Beyer"
slug: "charles-beyer"
description: "Charles Frederick Beyer was a celebrated German-British locomotive designer and builder, and co-founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He was the co-founder and head engineer of Beyer, Peacock and Company in Gorton, Manchester. A philanthropist and deeply religious, he founded three parish churches in Gorton, was a governor of The Manchester Grammar School, and remains the single biggest donor to what is today the University of Manchester. He is buried in the graveyard of Llantysilio Church, Llantysilio, Llangollen, Denbighshire North Wales. Llantysilio Church is within the grounds of his former 700 acre Llantysilio Hall estate. His mansion house, built 1872–1874, is nearby."
tagline: "Locomotive engineer (1813-1876)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Beyer_(%C3%96lportr%C3%A4t_von_Carl_Friedrich_Schmid_um_1870).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1813-05-14"
deathDate: "1876-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.615948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "تشارلز باير"
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    title: "تشارلز باير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Beyer"
    title: "Charles Beyer"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Beyer"
    title: "Charles Beyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Beyer"
    title: "Charles Beyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214772"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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