# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/isaac-pitman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:57:18.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/isaac-pitman"
name: "Isaac Pitman"
slug: "isaac-pitman"
description: "Sir Isaac Pitman was an English publisher and teacher of the English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. He was vice-president of the Vegetarian Society. Pitman was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1894."
tagline: "British inventor (1813–1897)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1813-01-04"
deathDate: "1897-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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