# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cornelis-lely
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:36:56.931Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cornelis-lely"
name: "Cornelis Lely"
slug: "cornelis-lely"
description: "Cornelis Lely was a Dutch politician of the Liberal Union and civil engineer who was Minister of Water Management and Governor of Suriname. The designer of Afsluitdijk, the largest dam and causeway at its time of construction, in 1932, he oversaw the Zuiderzee Works as Minister, turning the Zuiderzee into a lake and making possible the conversion of a vast area of former seabed into dry land. His plan deeply transposed and influenced the current geography of the Netherlands. Lelystad, the capital of the province of Flevoland, is named after him."
tagline: "Dutch civil servant and politician (1854-1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._C._Lely.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1854-09-23"
deathDate: "1929-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1592851592851593
  historical:           16.09414
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "康奈利斯·莱利"
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    title: "كورنيليس ليلى"
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    title: "Cornelis Lely"
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    title: "Cornelis Lely"
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    title: "Cornelis Lely"
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    title: "Cornelis Lely"
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    title: "Cornelis Lely"
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    title: "Cornelis Lely"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump