# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dugald-clerk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:57:20.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dugald-clerk"
name: "Dugald Clerk"
slug: "dugald-clerk"
description: "Sir Dugald Clerk KBE, LLD FRS was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine\nin 1878 and patented it in England in 1881. He was a graduate of Anderson's University in Glasgow, and Yorkshire College, Leeds. He formed the intellectual property firm with George Croydon Marks, called Marks & Clerk. He was knighted on 24 August 1917."
tagline: "British engineer (1854–1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dugald_Clerk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854-03-31"
deathDate: "1932-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.080332409972299
  historical:           7.926786666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Dugald Clerk"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Clerk"
    title: "Dugald Clerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Clerk"
    title: "Dugald Clerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دوگالد کلرک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dugald Clerk"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Clerk"
    title: "Dugald Clerk"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Clerk"
    title: "Dugald Clerk"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Clerk"
    title: "Dugald Clerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Clerk"
    title: "Dugald Clerk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump