# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-belville
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:19:24.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-belville"
name: "Ruth Belville"
slug: "ruth-belville"
description: "Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville, also known as the Greenwich Time Lady, was a businesswoman from London. She, her mother Maria Elizabeth, and her father John Henry, sold people the time. This was done by setting Belville's watch to Greenwich Mean Time, as shown by the Greenwich clock, each day and then \"selling\" people the time by letting them look at the watch and adjust theirs."
tagline: "British businesswoman (1854–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Belville_1908.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1854-03-05"
deathDate: "1943-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.55075733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump