# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-w-porter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:23:17.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-w-porter"
name: "Russell W. Porter"
slug: "russell-w-porter"
description: "Russell Williams Porter was an American artist, engineer, architect, cartographer, amateur astronomer, and Arctic explorer. He was a pioneer in the field of cutaway drawing and is sometimes referred to as the \"founder of amateur telescope making.\""
tagline: "American artist, engineer, astronomer, and explorer (1871-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RWP-Founders.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1871-12-13"
deathDate: "1949-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.44
  momentum:             6.730287859824781
  historical:           5.674406666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_W._Porter"
    title: "Russell W. Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "راسيل دبليو. بورتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_W._Porter"
    title: "Russell W. Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_W._Porter"
    title: "Russell W. Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_W._Porter"
    title: "Russell W. Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Williams_Porter"
    title: "Russell Williams Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2176967"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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