# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-anton-karl-de-ball
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:43.075Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-anton-karl-de-ball"
name: "Leo Anton Karl de Ball"
slug: "leo-anton-karl-de-ball"
description: "Leo Anton Karl de Ball was a German-Austrian astronomer. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center as \"K. de Ball\" for his (sole) asteroid discovery, but seems to be best known as Leo de Ball."
tagline: "German astronomer (1853–1916)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leo_Anton_Karl_de_Ball.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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birthDate: "1853-11-23"
deathDate: "1916-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump