# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hovannes-adamian
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:48:28.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hovannes-adamian"
name: "Hovannes Adamian"
slug: "hovannes-adamian"
description: "Hovhannes (Ivan) Abgari Adamian was an Armenian and Soviet engineer. He was an author of more than 20 inventions. The first experimental color television, shown in London in 1928, was based on Adamian's tricolor principle, and he is recognized as one of the founders of color television."
tagline: "Armenian inventor and engineer (1879–1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adamian1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-02-05"
deathDate: "1932-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump