# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-maitland-balfour
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:59:04.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-maitland-balfour"
name: "James Maitland Balfour"
slug: "james-maitland-balfour"
description: "James Maitland Balfour was a Scottish land-owner and businessman. He made a fortune in the 19th-century railway boom, and inherited a significant portion of his father's great wealth."
tagline: "British politician (1820-1856)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/James_balfour.jpg/330px-James_balfour.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1820-01-05"
deathDate: "1856-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.292334666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Maitland_Balfour"
    title: "James Maitland Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Maitland_Balfour"
    title: "James Maitland Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Maitland_Balfour"
    title: "James Maitland Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6138831"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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