# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-beauchamp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:01:49.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-beauchamp"
name: "George Beauchamp"
slug: "george-beauchamp"
description: "George Delmetia Beauchamp was an American inventor of musical instruments. He is known for designing the first electrically amplified guitar to be marketed commercially, using transducer pickups, which amplified the sound of the guitar and revolutionised music. He was also a founder of National Stringed Instrument Corporation and Rickenbacker guitars."
tagline: "American inventor (1899-1941)"
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: "1899-03-18"
deathDate: "1941-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.06
  momentum:             0.6164383561643835
  historical:           15.38027733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "George D. Beauchamp"
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    title: "George Beauchamp"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Beauchamp"
    title: "George Beauchamp"
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    title: "George Beauchamp"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump