# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcus-samuel-1st-viscount-bearsted
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:27:21.893Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcus-samuel-1st-viscount-bearsted"
name: "Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted"
slug: "marcus-samuel-1st-viscount-bearsted"
description: "Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted,, known as Sir Marcus Samuel between 1898 and 1921 and subsequently as Lord Bearsted until 1925, was a Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Netherlands-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell."
tagline: "British entrepreneur and politician (1853-1927)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marcus_Samuel_mw179354.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1853-11-05"
deathDate: "1927-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.57225466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marcus Samuel, 1. Viscount Bearsted"
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    title: "Marcus Samuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marcus Samuel Moss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Samuel"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Samuel"
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    title: "Marcus Samuel"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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