# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-whitworth
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:14:46.315Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-whitworth"
name: "Joseph Whitworth"
slug: "joseph-whitworth"
description: "Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads. Whitworth also created the Whitworth rifle, often called the \"sharpshooter\" because of its accuracy, which is considered one of the earliest examples of a sniper rifle, used by some Confederate forces during the American Civil war."
tagline: "English engineer, entrepreneur (1804–1887)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1804-12-21"
deathDate: "1887-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           19.298712
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump