# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harry-grindell-matthews
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:03:05.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harry-grindell-matthews"
name: "Harry Grindell Matthews"
slug: "harry-grindell-matthews"
description: "Harry Grindell Matthews was an English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s."
tagline: "Inventor (1880-1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harry_Grindell_Matthews_1924.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1880-03-17"
deathDate: "1941-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.29
  momentum:             2.307692307692307
  historical:           4.617532
  currentAttention:     12.82051282051282
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1425476/"
    handle:    "nm1425476"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "هاري غرينديل ماثيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Grindell_Matthews"
    title: "Harry Grindell Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Grindell_Matthews"
    title: "Harry Grindell Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Grindell_Matthews"
    title: "Harry Grindell Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5669310"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2952853"
    title: "Harry Grindell Matthews"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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