# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-w-alderson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:17:50.282Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-w-alderson"
name: "Samuel W. Alderson"
slug: "samuel-w-alderson"
description: "Samuel W. Alderson was an American inventor best known for his development of the crash test dummy, a device that, during the last half of the twentieth century, was widely used by automobile manufacturers to test the reliability of automobile seat belts and other safety protocols."
tagline: "American inventor (1914–2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Samuel_W._Alderson.jpg"
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: "1914-10-21"
deathDate: "2005-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.42
  momentum:             6.218487394957983
  historical:           5.876782666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Samuel W. Alderson"
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    title: "صموئيل دبليو. ألدرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_W._Alderson"
    title: "Samuel W. Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_W._Alderson"
    title: "Samuel W. Alderson"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88._%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ساموئل دبلیو. آلدرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_W._Alderson"
    title: "Samuel W. Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1352633"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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