# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/humphrey-verdon-roe
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:31:44.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/humphrey-verdon-roe"
name: "Humphrey Verdon Roe"
slug: "humphrey-verdon-roe"
description: "Humphrey Verdon Roe was a British businessman, a philanthropist, aircraft manufacturer and the usually unacknowledged co-founder of Britain's first and most successful birth control clinic along with Marie Stopes, who became his wife. He was the father of the British philosopher Harry Stopes-Roe. Roe advocated for the racial superiority of the British upper classes and pushed birth control as a means of reducing birth rates among the poor and lower classes.Neo-Malthusians, Eugenists, and the Declining Birth-Rate in England, 1900-1918"
tagline: "British army officer (1878–1949)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1878-04-18"
deathDate: "1949-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.32
  momentum:             11.84660006445375
  historical:           2.412096
  currentAttention:     63.2183908045977
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  31
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Verdon_Roe"
    title: "Humphrey Verdon Roe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%85%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "همفری وردون رو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5941653"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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