# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henri-deterding
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:17:43.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henri-deterding"
name: "Henri Deterding"
slug: "henri-deterding"
description: "Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, was one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and was its general manager for 36 years, from 1900 to 1936, and was also chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company. He succeeded the founder of Royal Dutch, Jean Baptiste August Kessler, when he died, and made Royal Dutch Shell a competitor to John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil and one of the world's largest petroleum companies."
tagline: "Dutch entrepreneur, (1886-1939) chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henri_Wilhelm_August_Deterding.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1866-04-19"
deathDate: "1939-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.23416933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Henri Deterding"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Henri Deterding"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Deterding"
    title: "Henri Deterding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Deterding"
    title: "Henri Deterding"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Deterding"
    title: "Henri Deterding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هنری دیتردینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Henri Deterding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Deterding"
    title: "Henri Deterding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Deterding"
    title: "Henri Deterding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Deterding"
    title: "Henri Deterding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Детердинг, Генри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump