# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/collis-potter-huntington
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:05:38.315Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/collis-potter-huntington"
name: "Collis Potter Huntington"
slug: "collis-potter-huntington"
description: "Collis Potter Huntington was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four tycoons of western railroading who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington helped lead and develop other major interstate lines, such as the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), which he was recruited to help complete. The C&O, completed in 1873, fulfilled a long-held dream of Virginians of a rail link from the James River at Richmond to the Ohio River valley. The railroad facilities adjacent to the river there resulted in expansion of the former small town of Guyandotte, West Virginia, into part of a new city which was named Huntington in his honor."
tagline: "American businessman (1821-1900)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Collis_P_Huntington_by_Stephen_W_Shaw.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1821-10-22"
deathDate: "1900-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.3
  momentum:             3.858632676709155
  historical:           8.208938666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Хантингтон, Коллис Поттер"
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    title: "كوليس بوتير هانتينغتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_P._Huntington"
    title: "Collis P. Huntington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_Potter_Huntington"
    title: "Collis Potter Huntington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_Potter_Huntington"
    title: "Collis Potter Huntington"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_Potter_Huntington"
    title: "Collis Potter Huntington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_Potter_Huntington"
    title: "Collis Potter Huntington"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_Potter_Huntington"
    title: "Collis Potter Huntington"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1109882"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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