# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-mason
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:33:34.433Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-mason"
name: "Charles Mason"
slug: "charles-mason"
description: "Charles Mason was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for surveying the Mason–Dixon line with Jeremiah Dixon from 1763 to 1767. The line came to mark the borders between Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware."
tagline: "English astronomer and surveyor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mason_and_Dixon_(just_Mason).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1728-04-25"
deathDate: "1786-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.66
  momentum:             25.80337605501719
  historical:           11.05774933333333
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "چارلس میسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز ماسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason_(astr%C3%B2nom)"
    title: "Charles Mason (astrònom)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason"
    title: "Charles Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason_(Astronom)"
    title: "Charles Mason (Astronom)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason"
    title: "Charles Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason"
    title: "Charles Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "چارلز میسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason_(astronome)"
    title: "Charles Mason (astronome)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "चार्ल्स मैसेन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason"
    title: "Charles Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason"
    title: "Charles Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason"
    title: "Charles Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065484"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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