# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horace-lawson-hunley
# Generated: 2026-08-15T21:42:47.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horace-lawson-hunley"
name: "Horace Lawson Hunley"
slug: "horace-lawson-hunley"
description: "Horace Lawson Hunley was a Confederate marine engineer during the American Civil War. He developed early hand-powered submarines, the most famous of which was posthumously named for him, H. L. Hunley."
tagline: "Confederate marine engineer during the American Civil War (1823-1863)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Horace_L_Hunley_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1823-12-29"
deathDate: "1863-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.242264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ханли, Хорас Лоусон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Horace Lawson Hunley"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Lawson_Hunley"
    title: "Horace Lawson Hunley"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Lawson_Hunley"
    title: "Horace Lawson Hunley"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Lawson_Hunley"
    title: "Horace Lawson Hunley"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "هوراس لاوسون هانلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Lawson_Hunley"
    title: "Horace Lawson Hunley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Lawson_Hunley"
    title: "Horace Lawson Hunley"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q338532"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump