# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-wakefield
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:55:12.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-wakefield"
name: "Arthur Wakefield"
slug: "arthur-wakefield"
description: "Arthur Wakefield was an English Navy officer who served with the Royal Navy before joining his brother, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in founding the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson in New Zealand."
tagline: "New Zealand coloniser (1799–1843)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lieutenant_Arthur_Wakefield%2C_RN.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1799-11-19"
deathDate: "1843-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.27
  momentum:             0.4803493449781659
  historical:           3.275306666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  38
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wakefield"
    title: "Arthur Wakefield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wakefield"
    title: "Arthur Wakefield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wakefield"
    title: "Arthur Wakefield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711854"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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