# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-perkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:28:29.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-perkins"
name: "Jacob Perkins"
slug: "jacob-perkins"
description: "Jacob Perkins was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is sometimes known as the father of the refrigerator. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1813 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1819."
tagline: "American scientist (1766-1849)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Jacob_Perkins_Esqr_(4672666).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1766-07-09"
deathDate: "1849-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jacob Perkins"
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    title: "Jacob Perkins"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump