# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-bell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:15:06.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-bell"
name: "Henry Bell"
slug: "henry-bell"
description: "Henry Bell was a Scottish engineer who helped to pioneer the development of the steamship. He is mostly widely known for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe in 1812."
tagline: "Scottish engineer (1767-1830)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Bell_-_James_Tannock_(page_224_crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1767-04-07"
deathDate: "1830-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.15
  momentum:             16.83544303797468
  historical:           6.613464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bell"
    title: "Henry Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bell_(enginyer)"
    title: "Henry Bell (enginyer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bell_(engineer)"
    title: "Henry Bell (engineer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bell"
    title: "Henry Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bell"
    title: "Henry Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bell_(injiniya)"
    title: "Henry Bell (injiniya)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bell"
    title: "Henry Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bell_(engenheiro)"
    title: "Henry Bell (engenheiro)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1249824"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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