# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/felix-du-temple-de-la-croix
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:49:33.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/felix-du-temple-de-la-croix"
name: "Félix du Temple de la Croix"
slug: "felix-du-temple-de-la-croix"
description: "Félix du Temple de la Croix was a French naval officer and an inventor, born into an ancient Norman family. He developed some of the first flying machines and is credited with the first successful flight of a powered aircraft of any sort, a powered model plane, in 1857 and is sometimes credited with the first manned powered flight in history aboard his Monoplane in 1874."
tagline: "French inventor (1823-1890)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Temple%2C_F%C3%A9lix_du%2C_Nadar%2C_Gallica.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1823-07-18"
deathDate: "1890-11-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.27771866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Φελίξ ντε λα Κρουά ντυ Ταμπλ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump