# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-grant-blaisdell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:52:09.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-grant-blaisdell"
name: "George Grant Blaisdell"
slug: "george-grant-blaisdell"
description: "George Blaisdell was an American inventor known for creating the Zippo lighter, based on an Austrian lighter in 1933. In the 1940s, he purchased buildings that could be converted into factories capable of making the Zippo lighter."
tagline: "Inventor of the Zippo lighter (1895–1978)"
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: "1895-06-05"
deathDate: "1978-10-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.84
  momentum:             0.5437665782493369
  historical:           6.761953333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82"
    title: "Блэйсделл, Джордж Грант"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AF%D9%84"
    title: "جورج غرانت بليسدل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grant_Blaisdell"
    title: "George Grant Blaisdell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grant_Blaisdell"
    title: "George Grant Blaisdell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_G._Blaisdell"
    title: "George G. Blaisdell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80_%EB%B8%94%EB%9D%BC%EC%8A%A4%EB%8D%B8"
    title: "조지 블라스델"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grant_Blaisdell"
    title: "George Grant Blaisdell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507435"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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