# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-e-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:39:19.572Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-e-knight"
name: "Margaret E. Knight"
slug: "margaret-e-knight"
description: "Margaret Eloise Knight was an American inventor, notably of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags. She has been called \"the most famous 19th-century woman inventor\". She founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870, creating paper bags for groceries similar in form to the ones that would be used in later generations. Knight received dozens of patents in different fields and became a symbol for women's empowerment."
tagline: "American inventor (1838–1914)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1838-02-14"
deathDate: "1914-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           16.715848
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  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