# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-legeyt-fortescue
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:09:32.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-legeyt-fortescue"
name: "Charles LeGeyt Fortescue"
slug: "charles-legeyt-fortescue"
description: "Charles LeGeyt Fortescue (1876–1936) was an electrical engineer. He was born in York Factory, in what is now Manitoba where the Hayes River enters Hudson Bay. He was the son of a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading factor and was among the first graduates of the Queen's University electrical engineering program in 1898."
tagline: "Canadian engineer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Charles_Legeyt_Fortescue.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1876-11-09"
deathDate: "1936"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  popularity:           40.16
  momentum:             0.7692307692307693
  historical:           6.342405333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Charles Legeyt Fortescue"
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    title: "تشارلز ليجيت فورتسكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Charles Legeyt Fortescue"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_LeGeyt_Fortescue"
    title: "Charles LeGeyt Fortescue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Legeyt_Fortescue"
    title: "Charles Legeyt Fortescue"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%84%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "چارلز لگیت فورتسکیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_LeGeyt_Fortescue"
    title: "Charles LeGeyt Fortescue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139992"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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