# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claude-etienne-minie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:09:47.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claude-etienne-minie"
name: "Claude-Étienne Minié"
slug: "claude-etienne-minie"
description: "Claude-Etienne Minié was a French military instructor and inventor famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball and Minié rifle in 1849. He succeeded the pioneering work of Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin."
tagline: "French Army officer (1804–1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Claude_Etienne_Minie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1804-02-13"
deathDate: "1879-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8333333333333334
  historical:           12.028548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "كلود اتيان مينى"
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    title: "Klods Etjēns Minjē"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump