# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-de-silva
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:05:29.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-de-silva"
name: "Walter de Silva"
slug: "walter-de-silva"
description: "Walter Maria de Silva is an Italian car designer and former head of Volkswagen Group Design, until 2015. Since beginning his car design career in 1972 as trainee car designer for Fiat's Style Centre, De Silva has also worked as a designer at I.DE.A Institute, and as head of design for Alfa Romeo, SEAT and the 'Audi brand group'. He is presently President of the Design Studio Walter De Silva Automotive."
tagline: "Italian automobile designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walterds.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
birthDate: "1951-02-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.09
  momentum:             0.772039645279082
  historical:           16.15635333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "والتر دى سيلفا"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_de%E2%80%99Silva"
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    title: "Walter de Silva"
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    title: "Walter De Silva"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump