# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-steiff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:13:11.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-steiff"
name: "Richard Steiff"
slug: "richard-steiff"
description: "Richard Steiff was a German designer known for creating one of the first teddy bears. In 1897, he joined Steiff, a stuffed toy company founded in his hometown Giengen by his aunt Margarete Steiff, and became integral to its growth as a global toy company."
tagline: "German toy inventor (1877–1939)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1877-02-07"
deathDate: "1939-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.83
  momentum:             16.8437900128041
  historical:           5.766633333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B1%DA%88_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81"
    title: "رچرڈ اسٹائف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Steiff"
    title: "Richard Steiff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "ريتشارد ستيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Steiff"
    title: "Richard Steiff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Steiff"
    title: "Richard Steiff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Steiff"
    title: "Richard Steiff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Steiff"
    title: "Richard Steiff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101508"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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