# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philo-of-byzantium
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:37:45.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philo-of-byzantium"
name: "Philo of Byzantium"
slug: "philo-of-byzantium"
description: "Philo of Byzantium, also known as Philo Mechanicus, 'Philo the Engineer' in Latin, was a Greek engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics, who lived during the latter half of the 3rd century BC. Although he was from Byzantium he lived most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. He was probably younger than Ctesibius, though some place him a century earlier."
tagline: "Ancient Greek engineer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-280"
deathDate: "-220"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.02506133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Filão de Bizâncio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philon von Byzanz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Filon Bysanttilainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philon de Byzance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ビザンチウムのフィロン (発明家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Византын Фило"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philo dari Byzantium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philon_van_Byzantium"
    title: "Philon van Byzantium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filon_de_Biz%C3%A0ncia"
    title: "Filon de Bizància"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filon_z_Bizancjum"
    title: "Filon z Bizancjum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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