# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dirck-gerritsz-pomp
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:10:32.058Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dirck-gerritsz-pomp"
name: "Dirck Gerritsz Pomp"
slug: "dirck-gerritsz-pomp"
description: "Dirck Gerritszoon Pomp, alias Dirck China, was a Dutch sailor of the 16th–17th century, and the first known Dutchman to visit China and Japan.\nPomp was born in Enkhuizen in the Burgundian Netherlands. As a youth, he was sent in 1555 to Lisbon to live with relatives who were traders, to learn Portuguese and train as merchant. In 1568 at the age of 22, Pomp established himself as a merchant on the isle of Goa off the coast of India. From there, he visited China and Japan aboard Portuguese trading ships."
tagline: "Dutch explorer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1544"
deathDate: "1608"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.29
  momentum:             15.0328947368421
  historical:           11.54431333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96%D1%86_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF"
    title: "Дірк Герріц Помп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerrits_Pomp"
    title: "Dirck Gerrits Pomp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerritz_Pomp"
    title: "Dirck Gerritz Pomp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerritsz_Pomp"
    title: "Dirck Gerritsz Pomp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerritz"
    title: "Dirck Gerritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerrits_Pomp"
    title: "Dirck Gerrits Pomp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9_%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B2_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%85%D9%BE"
    title: "دیرک گریتز پومپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerritsz_Pomp"
    title: "Dirck Gerritsz Pomp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerritszoon_Pomp"
    title: "Dirck Gerritszoon Pomp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerritsz._Pomp"
    title: "Dirck Gerritsz. Pomp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerritsz_Pomp"
    title: "Dirck Gerritsz Pomp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerritsz"
    title: "Dirck Gerritsz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Gerritsz_Pomp"
    title: "Dirck Gerritsz Pomp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721180"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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