# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-wedgwood
# Generated: 2026-09-01T19:55:06.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-wedgwood"
name: "Thomas Wedgwood"
slug: "thomas-wedgwood"
description: "Thomas Wedgwood was an English photographer and inventor. He is most widely known as an early experimenter in the field of photography. He is the first person known to have thought of creating permanent pictures by capturing camera images on material coated with a light-sensitive chemical. His practical experiments yielded only shadow image photograms that were not light-fast, but his conceptual breakthrough and partial success have led some historians to call him \"the first photographer\"."
tagline: "British photographic experimentor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Wedgwood_(1771-1805).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1771-05-14"
deathDate: "1805-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.220568335588634
  historical:           15.80367733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump