# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-bakken
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:34:49.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-bakken"
name: "Earl Bakken"
slug: "earl-bakken"
description: "Earl Elmer Bakken  was an American engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist. He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957."
tagline: "American academic (1924–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/090707-NCVH-EarlBakken.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-01-10"
deathDate: "2018-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.16994533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.earlbakken.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Earl Bakken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Earl Bakken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Bakken"
    title: "Earl Bakken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Bakken"
    title: "Earl Bakken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Earl Bakken"
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    title: "Earl Bakken"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump