# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:52.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-allen"
name: "Ralph Allen"
slug: "ralph-allen"
description: "Ralph Allen was a British postmaster, merchant and philanthropist best known for his reforms to Britain's postal system. Born in St Columb Major, Cornwall, he moved to Bath, Somerset to work in the municipal post office, becoming its postmaster by 1712. Allen made the system more efficient and took over contracts for the British mail service to cover areas of England up to the Anglo-Scottish border and into South Wales."
tagline: "British entrepreneur and philanthropist (1693-1764)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph-Allen-NPG-02b.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1693"
deathDate: "1764-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.66
  momentum:             18.15702479338843
  historical:           8.095322666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ralph Allen"
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    title: "رالف الين (رجال اعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Allen"
    title: "Ralph Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ralph Allen"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Allen"
    title: "Ralph Allen"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A3_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9F"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ralph Allen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump