# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diogo-gomes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:23:42.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/diogo-gomes"
name: "Diogo Gomes"
slug: "diogo-gomes"
description: "Diogo Gomes was a Portuguese navigator, explorer and writer.\nDiogo Gomes was a servant and explorer of Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator. His memoirs were dictated late in his life to Martin Behaim. They are an invaluable account of the Portuguese discoveries under Prince Henry the Navigator, and one of the principal sources upon which historians of the era have drawn. He explored and ascended up the Gambia River in West Africa and discovered some of the Cape Verde islands."
tagline: "Portuguese navigator and explorer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DiogoGomes.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1420"
deathDate: "1502"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.39
  momentum:             21.48893360160966
  historical:           11.659004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Gomes"
    title: "Diogo Gomes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%88%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%83"
    title: "Гомеш, Диогу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%83_%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%88"
    title: "Діогу Гоміш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "迪奥戈·戈梅斯"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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