# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-i-d-looff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:14:41.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-i-d-looff"
name: "Charles I. D. Looff"
slug: "charles-i-d-looff"
description: "Charles I. D. Looff was a German master carver and builder of hand-carved carousels and amusement rides, who immigrated to the United States of America in 1870. Looff built the first carousel at Coney Island in 1876. During his lifetime, he built over 40 carousels, several amusements parks, numerous roller coasters and Ferris wheels, and built California's famous Santa Monica Pier. He became famous for creating the unique Coney Island style of carousel carving."
tagline: "Amusement park pioneer and carousel maker (1852–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_I._D._Looff.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1852-05-24"
deathDate: "1918-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.5
  momentum:             0.3759398496240602
  historical:           4.619872
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 200
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%89._%D8%AF%D9%89._%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "تشارلز اى. دى. لوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Looff"
    title: "Charles Looff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I._D._Looff"
    title: "Charles I. D. Looff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Looff"
    title: "Charles Looff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I._D._Looff"
    title: "Charles I. D. Looff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75467"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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