# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-reichelt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:01:30.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-reichelt"
name: "Franz Reichelt"
slug: "franz-reichelt"
description: "Franz Reichelt, also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor. He is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design, a device that today might be called a wingsuit. Reichelt had become fixated on developing a suit for aviators that would convert into a parachute and allow them to survive a fall should they be forced to leave their aircraft in mid-air. Initial experiments conducted with dummies dropped from the fifth floor of his apartment building had been successful but he was unable to replicate those early successes with any of his subsequent designs."
tagline: "Austro-Hungarian-born French parachuting pioneer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franz_Reichelt_(high_res).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1878-10-16"
deathDate: "1912-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.394648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm6295534"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump