# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:11:55.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-hill"
name: "Donald Hill"
slug: "donald-hill"
description: "Donald Routledge Hill was a British engineer and historian of science and technology best known for his translation of The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices of the Muslim engineer Ismail al-Jazari."
tagline: "British historian and engineer (1922–1994)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-08-06"
deathDate: "1994-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.89171974522293
  historical:           6.339489333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hill"
    title: "Donald Hill"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Routledge_Hill"
    title: "Donald Routledge Hill"
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  - url: "https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Routledge_Hill"
    title: "Donald Routledge Hill"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump