# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caio-prado-junior
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:54:36.069Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caio-prado-junior"
name: "Caio Prado Júnior"
slug: "caio-prado-junior"
description: "Caio da Silva Prado Júnior was a Brazilian historian, geographer, writer, philosopher and politician. His works inaugurated a new historiographic tradition in Brazil, identified with Marxism, which led to new interpretations of Brazilian colonial society."
tagline: "Brazilian historian (1907-1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Caio_Prado_Junior.jpeg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-02-11"
deathDate: "1990-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.8
  momentum:             0.8751793400286945
  historical:           8.121242666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "كايو برادو جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كايو پرادو چونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caio_Prado_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Caio Prado Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caio_Prado_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Caio Prado Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caio_Prado_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Caio Prado Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caio_Prado_Jr."
    title: "Caio Prado Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caio_Prado_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Caio Prado Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%83_%D0%96%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%8E"
    title: "Праду Жуниор, Каю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump