# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-hamilton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:09:39.269Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-hamilton"
name: "Andrew Hamilton"
slug: "andrew-hamilton"
description: "Andrew Hamilton was a Scottish lawyer in the Thirteen Colonies who settled in Philadelphia. He was best known for his legal victory on behalf of the printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger. His involvement with the 1735 decision in New York helped to establish that truth is a defense to an accusation of libel. His eloquent defense concluded with saying that the press has \"a liberty both of exposing and opposing tyrannical power by speaking and writing truth.\""
tagline: "American lawyer (1676–1741)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adolf_Ulrik_Wertm%C3%BCller_-_Portrait_of_Andrew_Hamilton_(1808).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1676"
deathDate: "1741-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.02
  momentum:             0.1885245901639344
  historical:           4.844748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "أندرو هاميلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "اندرو هاميلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Hamilton_(lawyer)"
    title: "Andrew Hamilton (lawyer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Hamilton_(abogado)"
    title: "Andrew Hamilton (abogado)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E5%BE%B7%E9%B2%81%C2%B7%E6%B1%89%E5%AF%86%E5%B0%94%E9%A1%BF_(%E5%BE%8B%E5%B8%88)"
    title: "安德鲁·汉密尔顿 (律师)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757224"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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