# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linus-yale
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:41:54.132Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linus-yale"
name: "Linus Yale"
slug: "linus-yale"
description: "Linus Yale Jr. was an American businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and metalsmith. He was a co-founder with millionaire Henry R. Towne of the Yale Lock Company, which became the premier manufacturer of locks in the United States. He was the country's leading expert on bank locks and its most important maker. By the early 20th century, about three-quarters of all banks in America used his bank locks. He is best remembered for his inventions of locks, especially the cylinder lock, and his basic lock design is still widely distributed today, and constitutes a majority of personal locks and safes."
tagline: "American mechanical engineer (1821–1868)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yale134134linus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1821-04-04"
deathDate: "1868-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.671232876712328
  historical:           9.427936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  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