# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/du-shi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:46:07.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/du-shi"
name: "Du Shi"
slug: "du-shi"
description: "Du Shi was a Chinese hydrologist, inventor, mechanical engineer, metallurgist, and politician of the Eastern Han dynasty. Du Shi is credited with being the first to apply hydraulic power to operate bellows in metallurgy. His invention was used to operate piston-bellows of the blast furnace and then cupola furnace in order to forge cast iron, which had been known in China since the 6th century BC. He worked as a censorial officer and administrator of several places during the reign of Emperor Guangwu of Han. He also led a brief military campaign in which he eliminated a small bandit army under Yang Yi."
tagline: "1st century engineer, metallurgist and politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Yuan_Dynasty_-_waterwheels_and_smelting.png/330px-Yuan_Dynasty_-_waterwheels_and_smelting.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-50"
deathDate: "38"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.343953333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%9C%E8%A9%A9_(%E6%9D%B1%E6%BC%A2)"
    title: "杜詩 (東漢)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Shi"
    title: "Du Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Shi"
    title: "Du Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8F%D5%B8%D6%82_%D5%87%D5%AB"
    title: "Տու Շի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Shi"
    title: "Du Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%91%90%EC%8B%9C_(%ED%9B%84%ED%95%9C)"
    title: "두시 (후한)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Shi"
    title: "Du Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Shi"
    title: "Du Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Shi"
    title: "Du Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%9C%E8%A9%A9_(%E6%9D%B1%E6%BC%A2)"
    title: "杜詩 (東漢)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712102"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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