# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-xavier-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:55:54.398Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-xavier-thomas"
name: "Charles Xavier Thomas"
slug: "charles-xavier-thomas"
description: "Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French inventor and entrepreneur best known for designing, patenting, and manufacturing the first commercially successful mechanical calculator, known as the Arithmometer. Additionally, he founded the insurance companies Le Soleil and L'aigle, which, under his leadership, became the number one insurance group in France during the early years of the Second Empire."
tagline: "French computer pioneer (1785-1870)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_de_Colmar_(bgw19_1143).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1785-05-05"
deathDate: "1870-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.35489733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump