# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-piddington
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:11:20.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-piddington"
name: "Henry Piddington"
slug: "henry-piddington"
description: "Henry Piddington was an English sea captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is particularly well known for his pioneering studies in meteorology of tropical storms and hurricanes. He noted the circular winds around a calm centre recorded by ships caught in storms and coined the name cyclone in 1848."
tagline: "English scientist and merchant captain (1797-1858)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Piddington_1839.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1797-01-07"
deathDate: "1858-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.139381333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump