# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-john-forsyth
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:07:46.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-john-forsyth"
name: "Alexander John Forsyth"
slug: "alexander-john-forsyth"
description: "Alexander John Forsyth was a Scottish Church of Scotland minister, who first successfully used fulminating chemicals to prime gunpowder in fire-arms thereby creating what became known as percussion ignition."
tagline: "British clergyman and inventor (1769-1843)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plaque_to_a_man_of_the_cloth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1075712.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1769-12-28"
deathDate: "1843-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.72
  momentum:             9.242621842245084
  historical:           10.28229066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alexander John Forsyth"
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    title: "ألكسندر جون فورسيث"
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    title: "الكسندر جون فورسيث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alexander John Forsyth"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_John_Forsyth"
    title: "Alexander John Forsyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_John_Forsyth"
    title: "Alexander John Forsyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_John_Forsyth"
    title: "Alexander John Forsyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_John_Forsyth"
    title: "Alexander John Forsyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_John_Forsyth"
    title: "Alexander John Forsyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_John_Forsyth"
    title: "Alexander John Forsyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Forsyth"
    title: "Alexander Forsyth"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_John_Forsyth"
    title: "Alexander John Forsyth"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump