# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-le-roy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:31:51.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-le-roy"
name: "Jean Baptiste Le Roy"
slug: "jean-baptiste-le-roy"
description: "Jean-Baptiste Le Roy was an 18th-century French physicist and one of the major contributors to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d’Alembert for technology. The son of 18th-century Parisian clockmaker and watchmaker Julien Le Roy, he had three brothers: Pierre (1717–1785), a brilliant clock-maker in his own right, Julien-David (1724–1803), a neo-classical architect and archaeologist, and Charles a physician and Encyclopédiste."
tagline: "French physicist and chemist (1720-1800)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Encyclop%C3%A9die_-_Le_Roy_-_Coup_foudroyant%2C_p337.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1720-08-15"
deathDate: "1800-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.732673267326733
  historical:           7.208532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jean-Baptiste Le Roy"
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    title: "جان باتيست لوروا"
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    title: "جان باتيست لوروا"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Le_Roy"
    title: "Jean-Baptiste Le Roy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Le_Roy"
    title: "Jean-Baptiste Le Roy"
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    title: "Jean-Baptiste Le Roy"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Le_Roy"
    title: "Jean-Baptiste Le Roy"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump