# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-hamilton-rice
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:05:34.551Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-hamilton-rice"
name: "Alexander Hamilton Rice"
slug: "alexander-hamilton-rice"
description: "Alexander Hamilton Rice was an American physician, geographer, and explorer of the Amazon Basin. He was a professor of geography at Harvard University from 1929 to 1952. He was also founder and director of the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration and curator of the South American section of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology."
tagline: "American geographer and explorer (1875–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Hamilton_Rice_Jr_in_the_field.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1875-08-29"
deathDate: "1956-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.92
  momentum:             0.0664451827242525
  historical:           5.477574666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Hamilton_Rice"
    title: "A. Hamilton Rice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%87._%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86."
    title: "الكسندر ه. رايس الابن."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81"
    title: "Александър Райс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%9E%E6%AD%B7%E5%B1%B1%E5%A4%A7%C2%B7%E6%BC%A2%E7%B1%B3%E7%88%BE%E9%A0%93%C2%B7%E8%90%8A%E6%96%AF"
    title: "亞歷山大·漢米爾頓·萊斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_H._Rice_(explorer)"
    title: "Alexander H. Rice (explorer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_Rice_Jr."
    title: "Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4719041"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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