# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elisha-gray
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:56:10.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elisha-gray"
name: "Elisha Gray"
slug: "elisha-gray"
description: "Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois. Some recent authors have argued that Gray should be considered the true inventor of the telephone because Alexander Graham Bell allegedly stole the idea of the liquid transmitter from him. Gray had been using liquid transmitters in his telephone experiments for more than two years previously; however, Bell's patent was upheld in court."
tagline: "American electrical engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_elisha_gray.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1835-08-02"
deathDate: "1901-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.61
  momentum:             1.732620320855615
  historical:           21.55444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Elisha Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إليشا غراي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elisha Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elisha Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elisha Gray"
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    title: "Elisha Gray"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elisha Gray"
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    title: "Իլայշա Գրեյ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "일라이셔 그레이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elisha Gray"
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    title: "Elisha Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elisha Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318449"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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