# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/antonio-de-saldanha
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:20:20.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/antonio-de-saldanha"
name: "António de Saldanha"
slug: "antonio-de-saldanha"
description: "António de Saldanha was a Castilian-Portuguese 16th-century captain. He was the first European to set anchor in what is now called Table Bay, South Africa, and made the first recorded ascent of Table Mountain."
tagline: "Portuguese explorer and diplomat"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1500"
deathDate: "1600"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.27933866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Салданья, Антониу де"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "António de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "António de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "António de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "António de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "António de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "آنتونیو د سالدانیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "António de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "Antonio de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "António de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "António de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Saldanha"
    title: "António de Saldanha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q933601"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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