# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-farman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:19:02.612Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-farman"
name: "Richard Farman"
slug: "richard-farman"
description: "Richard Farman (1872–1940) was a British-French aeronautical engineer, aviator, and eldest of the Farman brothers who were pioneers of early aviation. He was better known as Dick Farman using the then popular sobriquet in place of the formal Richard. Like his brothers he was also active among pioneer racing cyclists and motocyclists."
tagline: "French aerospace engineer (1872-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_Farman_1920.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1872-05-15"
deathDate: "1940-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.08
  momentum:             3.723404255319149
  historical:           5.671310666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Farman"
    title: "Richard Farman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ريتشارد فارمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ريتشارد فارمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Річард Фарман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Farman"
    title: "Dick Farman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Farman"
    title: "Richard Farman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q588271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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