# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-bazalgette
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:44:59.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-bazalgette"
name: "Joseph Bazalgette"
slug: "joseph-bazalgette"
description: "Sir Joseph William Bazalgette was a British civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of the London Main Drainage, the sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames."
tagline: "British civil engineer (1819–1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Bazalgette_by_Lock_%26_Whitfield.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1819-03-28"
deathDate: "1891-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.66927466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump