# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-baden-powell-1st-baron-baden-powell
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:29:45.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-baden-powell-1st-baron-baden-powell"
name: "Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell"
slug: "robert-baden-powell-1st-baron-baden-powell"
description: "He turned a military field manual into the largest youth movement in history. Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys — written to train reconnaissance soldiers — landed in the hands of schoolboys and ignited something its author hadn't quite planned: millions of children pledging oaths under canvas."
tagline: "Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Baden-Powell_in_South_Africa%2C_1896_(2).jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1857-02-22"
deathDate: "1941-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           66.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.334664
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Historical Figures"
    slug: "historical-figures"
  - name: "Writer / Author"
    slug: "writer-author"
  - name: "Literature"
    slug: "literature"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "United Kingdom"
    slug: "united-kingdom"
  - name: "Europe"
    slug: "europe"
  - name: "19th Century"
    slug: "19th-century"
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046019/"
    handle:    "nm0046019"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12665"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Robert%20Baden-Powell%2C%201st%20Baron%20Baden-Powell"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "روبرت بادن باول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "بادن باول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2"
    title: "লৰ্ড বেডেন পাৱেল"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Lord Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8D%D0%BD-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%9E%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Робэрт Бадэн-Паўэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8D%D0%BD-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%9E%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Роберт Бадэн-Паўэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B4%D1%8A%D0%BD-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8A%D0%BB"
    title: "Робърт Бейдън-Пауъл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2"
    title: "রবার্ট ব্যাডেন পাওয়েল"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%8C%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%BD-%CE%A0%CE%AC%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B5%CE%BB"
    title: "Ρόμπερτ Μπέιντεν-Πάουελ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell%2C_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D9%86-%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "رابرت بی‌دن-پاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Robert Baden-Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell joined the British Army in 1876 and served in India and Africa until 1910, rising to Lieutenant-General. His 1899 defense of Mafeking during the Second Boer War made his name, but his reconnaissance handbooks — Aids to Scouting chief among them — had a stranger afterlife: teachers and youth groups began using them with boys. In August 1907 he ran an experimental camp on Brownsea Island to test whether his scouting methods could work for civilians, then published Scouting for Boys the following year. It spread fast. By 1909 girls in Scout uniform were showing up at rallies, declaring themselves "Girl Scouts"; Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes formalized The Girl Guides Association in 1910. He retired from the army that same year to lead the movement full-time, married Olave St Clair Soames in 1912, and guided both organizations until stepping back in 1937. He spent his final years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died in 1941 and was buried beneath what became a national monument.