# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morris-michtom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:25:46.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morris-michtom"
name: "Morris Michtom"
slug: "morris-michtom"
description: "Morris Michtom was a Russian-born businessman and inventor who, with his wife Rose, also a Russian Jewish immigrant who lived in Brooklyn, founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company. Michtom came up with the idea for the teddy bear in 1902. After Michtom's death, the company became the largest doll-making company in the United States."
tagline: "American toy inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morris_Michtom_in_New_York.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1869-09-12"
deathDate: "1938-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.21
  momentum:             0.2790697674418605
  historical:           5.099066666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Michtom"
    title: "Morris Michtom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "موريس ميتشتوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Michtom"
    title: "Morris Michtom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Michtom"
    title: "Morris Michtom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%A9%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98"
    title: "მორის მიჩტომი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Michtom"
    title: "Morris Michtom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1948513"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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