# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-macfarquhar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:08:23.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-macfarquhar"
name: "Colin Macfarquhar"
slug: "colin-macfarquhar"
description: "Colin Macfarquhar was a Scottish bookseller and printer who is most known for co-founding Encyclopædia Britannica with Andrew Bell, first published in December 1768. The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain, even to Britannica itself."
tagline: "British bookseller and printer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_Macfarquhar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1745"
deathDate: "1793-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.542585333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Macfarquhar"
    title: "Colin Macfarquhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Macfarquhar"
    title: "Colin Macfarquhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Macfarquhar"
    title: "Colin Macfarquhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC"
    title: "コリン・マクファーカー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Macfarquhar"
    title: "Colin Macfarquhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Макфаркар, Колин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Macfarquhar"
    title: "Colin Macfarquhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2344982"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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