# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-topping
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:43:43.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-topping"
name: "Michael Topping"
slug: "michael-topping"
description: "Michael Topping was the Chief Marine Surveyor of Fort St. George in Chennai responsible for founding the oldest modern technical school outside Europe. The Survey School was completed on 17 May 1794, with an initial intake of eight students. In 1858 it became the Civil Engineering School and the College of Engineering in 1861."
tagline: "British astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael-Topping.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1747"
deathDate: "1796"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.11
  momentum:             0.1212121212121212
  historical:           5.472678666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Topping"
    title: "Michael Topping"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "مايكل توبنج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%BB_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Майкъл Топинг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81"
    title: "மைக்கேல் தோப்பிங்கு"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Topping"
    title: "Michael Topping"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Topping"
    title: "Michael Topping"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3133595"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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