# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alvaro-martins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:41:58.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alvaro-martins"
name: "Álvaro Martins"
slug: "alvaro-martins"
description: "Álvaro Martins, also known as Álvaro Martins Homem, was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer alleged to have explored the western Atlantic and later the African coast. He is claimed to have accompanied João Vaz Corte-Real on an undocumented expedition to Terra Nova do Bacalhau in the early 1470s, by Gaspar Frutuoso in his 1570s book Saudades da Terra."
tagline: "Portuguese explorer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%81lvaro_Martins_Homem.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1430"
deathDate: "1482"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.99
  momentum:             2.673992673992674
  historical:           7.612456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Martins_Homem"
    title: "Álvaro Martins Homem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ألفارو مارتينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Martins"
    title: "Álvaro Martins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Martins_Homem"
    title: "Álvaro Martins Homem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvaro_Martins_Homem"
    title: "Alvaro Martins Homem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Martins_Homem"
    title: "Álvaro Martins Homem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%88"
    title: "Омен, Алвару Мартинш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%88"
    title: "Алвару Мартінш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%B0%94%E7%93%A6%E7%BD%97%C2%B7%E9%A9%AC%E4%B8%81%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E5%A5%A5%E6%A2%85%E5%A7%86"
    title: "阿尔瓦罗·马丁斯·奥梅姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2840589"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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