# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valentine-ball
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:46:28.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valentine-ball"
name: "Valentine Ball"
slug: "valentine-ball"
description: "Valentine Ball was an Irish geologist, son of Robert Ball (1802–1857) and a brother of Sir Robert Ball. Ball worked in the Geological Survey of India for twenty years before returning to take up a position in Ireland."
tagline: "Irish scientist (1843–1895)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valentine_Ball.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1843-07-14"
deathDate: "1895-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.63
  momentum:             3.953488372093023
  historical:           8.737653333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Valentine Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Valentine Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Valentine Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Valentine Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://knc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Valentine Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Valentine Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Valentine Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Valentine Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Ball"
    title: "Valentine Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1674636"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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