# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-lake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:20:18.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-lake"
name: "Simon Lake"
slug: "simon-lake"
description: "Simon Lake was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy."
tagline: "American inventor (1866–1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon.Lake.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: "1866-09-04"
deathDate: "1945-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.07
  momentum:             6.63934426229508
  historical:           8.756949333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "西蒙·萊克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيمون لاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lake"
    title: "Simon Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lake"
    title: "Simon Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Σάιμον Λέικ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lake"
    title: "Simon Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lake"
    title: "Simon Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lake"
    title: "Simon Lake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Лейк, Саймон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%AC%DA%BE%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "سائمن جھیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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