# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiram-sibley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:40:22.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiram-sibley"
name: "Hiram Sibley"
slug: "hiram-sibley"
description: "Hiram Sibley was an American industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who was a pioneer of the telegraph in the United States."
tagline: "American industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist; co-founder and President of Western Union (1807-1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HiramSibley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1807-02-06"
deathDate: "1888-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.64
  momentum:             7.285714285714284
  historical:           4.81242
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "حيرام سيبلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "حيرام سيبلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Sibley"
    title: "Hiram Sibley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Sibley"
    title: "Hiram Sibley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC"
    title: "Сибли, Хайрам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3136211"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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