# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kemp-starley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:37:02.867Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kemp-starley"
name: "John Kemp Starley"
slug: "john-kemp-starley"
description: "John Kemp Starley was an English inventor and industrialist who is widely considered the inventor of the modern safety bicycle, and also originator of the tradename Rover."
tagline: "British businessman (1854-1901)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Starley-Rover_bicycle.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854-12-14"
deathDate: "1901-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.77
  momentum:             11.99468085106383
  historical:           15.52988266666667
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Kemp Starley"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump