# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jam-handy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:11:21.876Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jam-handy"
name: "Jam Handy"
slug: "jam-handy"
description: "Henry Jamison \"Jam\" Handy was an American Olympic breaststroke swimmer, water polo player, and founder of the Jam Handy Organization (JHO), a producer of commercially sponsored motion pictures, slidefilms, trade shows, industrial theater and multimedia training aids. Credited as the first person to imagine distance learning, Handy made his first film in 1910 and presided over a company that produced an estimated 7,000 motion pictures and perhaps as many as 100,000 slidefilms before it was dissolved in 1983."
tagline: "American swimmer and water polo player, Olympic bronze medalist, educational film producer (1886–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jam_Handy_Entrevista_(GuiaMartinez).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1886-03-06"
deathDate: "1983-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.95990133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359696/"
    handle:    "nm0359696"
sources:
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    title: "Джем Генді"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هاندى جيمسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jamison_Handy"
    title: "Henry Jamison Handy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jamison_Handy"
    title: "Henry Jamison Handy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy"
    title: "Jam Handy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jamison_Handy"
    title: "Henry Jamison Handy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "جم هندی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy"
    title: "Jam Handy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jamison_Handy"
    title: "Henry Jamison Handy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jamison_Handy"
    title: "Henry Jamison Handy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy"
    title: "Jam Handy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724727"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1276971"
    title: "Jam Handy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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