# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-zapp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:01:17.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-zapp"
name: "Walter Zapp"
slug: "walter-zapp"
description: "Walter Zapp was a Baltic German inventor. His best-known creation was the Minox subminiature camera. Over the course of his life, he was granted over 60 patents."
tagline: "Estonian inventor of Baltic German origin (1905–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Zapp_2000.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1905-08-22"
deathDate: "2003-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.446096654275093
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump