# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-scott-waugh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:21:04.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-scott-waugh"
name: "Andrew Scott Waugh"
slug: "andrew-scott-waugh"
description: "Major-General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh was a British Army officer and Surveyor General of India who worked in the Great Trigonometrical Survey. He served under Sir George Everest and succeeded him in 1843. Waugh established a gridiron system of traverses for covering northern India. Waugh is credited with naming the peak of Mount Everest."
tagline: "British army officer and Surveyor General of India (1810-1878)"
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gender: "male"
birthDate: "1810-02-03"
deathDate: "1878-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump