# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-d-robinson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:28:50.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-d-robinson"
name: "Frank D. Robinson"
slug: "frank-d-robinson"
description: "Franklin Davis Robinson was an American aeronautical engineer and the founder of Robinson Helicopter Company in Torrance, California. He served as president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the company for many years. In the early 1970s, Robinson designed the Robinson R22 helicopter, a popular, light, two-place civilian aircraft, which later developed into the R44, one of the most successful civilian helicopters in history."
tagline: "American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1930–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Robinson_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1930-01-01"
deathDate: "2022-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.84
  momentum:             12.37726010122527
  historical:           8.096942666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump