# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-w-lanchester
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:26:34.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-w-lanchester"
name: "Frederick W. Lanchester"
slug: "frederick-w-lanchester"
description: "Frederick William Lanchester, was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research."
tagline: "British polymath (1868–1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thinktank_Birmingham_-_Lanchester_F(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1868-10-23"
deathDate: "1946-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.845130788264404
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  currentAttention:     48.1029810298103
  sourceConfidence:     60
  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