# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-methvan-whyte
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:46:37.186Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-methvan-whyte"
name: "Frederick Methvan Whyte"
slug: "frederick-methvan-whyte"
description: "Frederick Methvan Whyte was a mechanical engineer of Dutch background who worked for the New York Central Railroad in the United States. He is most widely known as the person who developed the Whyte notation to describe the different wheel arrangements of steam locomotives in 1900."
tagline: "Dutch-American mechanical engineer; invented the Whyte Classification System"
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: "1865-03-02"
deathDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.3448275862069
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Уит, Фредерик Метван"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Methvan_Whyte"
    title: "Frederick Methvan Whyte"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Methvan_Whyte"
    title: "Frederick Methvan Whyte"
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    title: "فردریک متوان وایت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Methvan_Whyte"
    title: "Frederick Methvan Whyte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Methvan_Whyte"
    title: "Frederick Methvan Whyte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Methvan_Whyte"
    title: "Frederick Methvan Whyte"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5498396"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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