# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edouard-louis-joseph-1st-baron-empain
# Generated: 2026-08-16T12:57:57.332Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edouard-louis-joseph-1st-baron-empain"
name: "Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain"
slug: "edouard-louis-joseph-1st-baron-empain"
description: "Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain, was a wealthy Walloon Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist. During World War I he became a known major general. His major claims to fame are being the original winner of the contract to build the Paris Metro, and developing the town of Heliopolis in Cairo."
tagline: "Engineer, entrepreneur, financier, industrialist (1852-1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edouard_Empain.GIF?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1852-09-20"
deathDate: "1929-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.37
  momentum:             0.5263157894736842
  historical:           10.78906666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%95%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Едуар Емпен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "البارون إمبان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "البارون امبان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Louis_Joseph_Empain"
    title: "Édouard Louis Joseph Empain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Empain"
    title: "Édouard Empain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Empain"
    title: "Édouard Empain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Louis_Joseph_Empain"
    title: "Édouard Louis Joseph Empain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Empain"
    title: "Édouard Empain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Louis_Joseph_Empain"
    title: "Édouard Louis Joseph Empain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Louis_Joseph_Empain"
    title: "Édouard Louis Joseph Empain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Empain"
    title: "Édouard Empain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Эмпен, Эдуард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274360"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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