# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-peglau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:38.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-peglau"
name: "Karl Peglau"
slug: "karl-peglau"
description: "Karl Peglau was a German traffic psychologist who invented the iconic Ampelmännchen traffic symbols used in the former East Germany in 1961. The Ampelmännchen depicts a symbolic person on the red and green pedestrian traffic lights."
tagline: "German engineer and traffic psychologist (1927–2009)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1927-05-18"
deathDate: "2009-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.682614666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A1%E7%88%BE%C2%B7%E4%BD%A9%E6%A0%BC%E5%8B%9E"
    title: "卡爾·佩格勞"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "كارل بيجلاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Peglau"
    title: "Karl Peglau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Peglau"
    title: "Karl Peglau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Peglau"
    title: "Karl Peglau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Peglau"
    title: "Karl Peglau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Peglau"
    title: "Karl Peglau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Peglau_(ingenieur)"
    title: "Karl Peglau (ingenieur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Peglau"
    title: "Karl Peglau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74859"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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