# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cyrus-byington
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:54:44.123Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cyrus-byington"
name: "Cyrus Byington"
slug: "cyrus-byington"
description: "Cyrus Byington was an American Christian missionary from Massachusetts who began working with the Choctaw in Mississippi in 1821. Although he had been trained as a lawyer, he abandoned law as a career and became a minister affiliated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. During this period he learned the Choctaw language, which was then entirely unwritten. He also began to develop a Choctaw orthography."
tagline: "Christian missionary"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cyrus_Byington.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1793-03-11"
deathDate: "1868-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.337293333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Сайрус Байінгтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سيراس باينغتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سيراس باينجتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Byington"
    title: "Cyrus Byington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Byington"
    title: "Cyrus Byington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Byington"
    title: "Cyrus Byington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Байингтон, Сайрус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q956784"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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