# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-dyson
# Generated: 2026-09-02T04:18:30.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-dyson"
name: "James Dyson"
slug: "james-dyson"
description: "Sir James Dyson is an English inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2023, he was the fifth-richest person in the United Kingdom, with an estimated family net worth of £23 billion. As of March 2025, Forbes lists Dyson's net worth as $13.3 billion."
tagline: "British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_James_Dyson_CBE_FREng_FRS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-05-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.53874133333333
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 83
totalFollowers: 17500
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump