# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ximen-bao
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:25:09.082Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ximen-bao"
name: "Ximen Bao"
slug: "ximen-bao"
description: "Ximen Bao was a Chinese hydraulic engineer, philosopher, and politician. He was a government minister and court advisor to Marquis Wen of Wei during the Warring States period of ancient China. He was known as an early rationalist, who had the State of Wei abolish the practice of sacrificing people to the river god He Bo. Although the earlier statesman Sunshu Ao is credited as China's first hydraulic engineer, Ximen Bao is nonetheless credited as the first engineer in China to create a large canal irrigation system."
tagline: "4th-century BC Chinese philosopher and engineer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-500"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.58
  momentum:             1.283345349675559
  historical:           8.789673333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E9%96%80%E8%B1%B9"
    title: "西門豹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximen_Bao"
    title: "Ximen Bao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximen_Bao"
    title: "Ximen Bao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksimen_Bao"
    title: "Ksimen Bao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximen_Bao"
    title: "Ximen Bao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E9%96%80%E8%B1%B9"
    title: "西門豹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%9C%EB%AC%B8%ED%91%9C"
    title: "서문표"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximen_Bao"
    title: "Ximen Bao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximen_Bao"
    title: "Ximen Bao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximen_Bao"
    title: "Ximen Bao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q976097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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