# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-peter
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:11:41.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-peter"
name: "Daniel Peter"
slug: "daniel-peter"
description: "Daniel Peter was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur who founded Peter's Chocolate. A neighbour of Henri Nestlé in Vevey, he was one of the first chocolatiers to make milk chocolate and is credited for inventing it, in 1875 or 1876, by adding powdered milk to the chocolate."
tagline: "Swiss businessman (1836-1919)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daniel_Peter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1836-03-09"
deathDate: "1919-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.100244498777506
  historical:           16.862388
  currentAttention:     6.112469437652811
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
    title: "Daniel Peter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%B5%CE%BB_%CE%A0%CE%AD%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81"
    title: "Ντάνιελ Πέτερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
    title: "Daniel Peter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
    title: "Daniel Peter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
    title: "Daniel Peter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
    title: "Daniel Peter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
    title: "Daniel Peter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
    title: "Daniel Peter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
    title: "Daniel Peter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Peter"
    title: "Daniel Peter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump