# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-leslie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:12:58.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-leslie"
name: "Donald Leslie"
slug: "donald-leslie"
description: "Donald James Leslie was an American inventor best known for the Leslie speaker and its distinctive effect commonly used with the Hammond organ which helped popularize electronic instruments."
tagline: "American inventor (1911-2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-04-13"
deathDate: "2004-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.680022666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://donaldleslie.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Leslie"
    title: "Donald Leslie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "دونالد ليزلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Leslie"
    title: "Donald Leslie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Leslie"
    title: "Donald Leslie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Leslie"
    title: "Donald Leslie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Leslie"
    title: "Donald Leslie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327122"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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