# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-hirst
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:28:46.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-hirst"
name: "Ivan Hirst"
slug: "ivan-hirst"
description: "Major Ivan Hirst was a British Army officer and engineer who was instrumental in reviving Volkswagen from a single factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, into a major postwar automotive manufacturer."
tagline: "Engineer, British Army officer, reviver of post-World War II Volkswagen"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/100th-beetle.jpg/330px-100th-beetle.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1916-03-04"
deathDate: "2000-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.16
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.606269333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Hirst"
    title: "Ivan Hirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Hirst"
    title: "Ivan Hirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Hirst"
    title: "Ivan Hirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "ایوان هرست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Hirst"
    title: "Ivan Hirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Hirst"
    title: "Ivan Hirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Hirst"
    title: "Ivan Hirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q878006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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