# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/germain-pirlot
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:31:40.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/germain-pirlot"
name: "Germain Pirlot"
slug: "germain-pirlot"
description: "Germain Pirlot is a Belgian esperantist and ex-teacher of French and history, presently living in Ostend. He is best known as the inventor of the name euro for the common currency of the European Union (EU)."
tagline: "Belgian esperantist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Germain_Pirlot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-03-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.7
  momentum:             2
  historical:           5.940029333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Pirlot"
    title: "Germain Pirlot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%96%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BD_%CE%A0%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%BB%CF%8C"
    title: "Ζερμαίν Πιρλό"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Pirlot"
    title: "Germain Pirlot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Pirlot"
    title: "Germain Pirlot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Pirlot"
    title: "Germain Pirlot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Pirlot"
    title: "Germain Pirlot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BA%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%A5%D5%B6_%D5%8A%D5%AB%D6%80%D5%AC%D5%B8"
    title: "Ժերմեն Պիրլո"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q952252"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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