# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-close
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:26:34.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-close"
name: "Charles Close"
slug: "charles-close"
description: "Colonel Sir Charles Frederick Arden-Close, was a British geographer and surveyor. He was Director General of the Ordnance Survey from 1911 to 1922. His insistence on attention to detail saw the improvement of many attitudes and methods at the Ordnance Survey. Close's planning saw the production of many maps now viewed as pinnacles in the classic period of map making. He was born Charles Frederick Close and changed his surname to Arden-Close in 1938 so as to comply with a bequest."
tagline: "British geographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Close_(1913).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1865-08-10"
deathDate: "1952-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.52
  momentum:             10.45081967213115
  historical:           4.602844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "تشارلز كلوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Close"
    title: "Charles Close"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Close"
    title: "Charles Close"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Close"
    title: "Charles Close"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Frederick_Arden-Close"
    title: "Charles Frederick Arden-Close"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5076334"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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