# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-cockerell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:24:35.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-cockerell"
name: "Christopher Cockerell"
slug: "christopher-cockerell"
description: "Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft."
tagline: "English engineer (1910–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christopher_Cockerell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1910-06-04"
deathDate: "1999-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  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