# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-greysolon-sieur-du-lhut
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:06:34.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-greysolon-sieur-du-lhut"
name: "Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut"
slug: "daniel-greysolon-sieur-du-lhut"
description: "Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut was a French soldier and explorer who is the first European known to have visited the area where the city of Duluth, Minnesota, United States, is now located and the head of Lake Superior in Minnesota. His name is sometimes anglicized as \"DuLuth\", and he is the namesake of Duluth, Minnesota, as well as Duluth, Georgia. Daniel Greysolon signed himself \"Dulhut\" on surviving manuscripts."
tagline: "French explorer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1639"
deathDate: "1710-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.55
  momentum:             2.723631508678237
  historical:           4.842408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greysolon%2C_Sieur_du_Lhut"
    title: "Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greysolon"
    title: "Daniel Greysolon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greysolon%2C_Sieur_du_Lhut"
    title: "Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greysolon%2C_sieur_du_Lhut"
    title: "Daniel Greysolon, sieur du Lhut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8E_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Дю Лют, Даниэль Гресолон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3014132"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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