# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-cole
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:47.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-cole"
name: "Henry Cole"
slug: "henry-cole"
description: "Sir Henry Cole FRSA was an English civil servant and inventor who facilitated many innovations in commerce, education and the arts in the 19th century in the United Kingdom. Cole is credited with devising the concept of sending greetings cards at Christmas time, introducing the world's first commercial Christmas card in 1843."
tagline: "English civil servant and inventor (1808–1882)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Sir_Henry_Cole.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1808-07-15"
deathDate: "1882-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.23
  momentum:             0.6625141562853908
  historical:           17.13445466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1532625"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84_(%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "هنري كول (رائد أعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84_(%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "هنرى كول (فنان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хенри Коул"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole_(inventor)"
    title: "Henry Cole (inventor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C"
    title: "הנרי קול"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole"
    title: "Henry Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BB%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Коул, Генри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BB"
    title: "Генрі Коул"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537906"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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