# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-yost
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:12:34.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-yost"
name: "Ed Yost"
slug: "ed-yost"
description: "Paul Edward Yost was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the \"Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon.\" He worked for a high-altitude research division of General Mills in the early 1950s until he left to establish Raven Industries in 1956, along with several colleagues from General Mills."
tagline: "American balloonist (1919–2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Ed_yost_balloonist.png"
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: "1919-06-30"
deathDate: "2007-05-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.97
  momentum:             1.038374717832957
  historical:           5.484270666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Yost"
    title: "Ed Yost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "إد يوست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BD%CF%84_%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84"
    title: "Εντ Γιοστ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Yost"
    title: "Ed Yost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Yost"
    title: "Ed Yost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Yost"
    title: "Ed Yost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1999544"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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