# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/djedefre
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:33:57.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/djedefre"
name: "Djedefre"
slug: "djedefre"
description: "The pharaoh who made kingship divine. Djedefre took the throne after Khufu and declared every ruler to come a son of the sun god Ra — a title that would define Egyptian monarchy for three thousand years."
tagline: "Egyptian Pharaoh"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Djedefre_sphinx_head-E_12626-IMG_4294-gradient.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "-2610"
deathDate: "-2558"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.005632
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    title: "Djedefre"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djedefre"
    title: "Djedefre"
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    title: "Djedefra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Djedefre inherited the throne of the 4th Dynasty around 2558 BC, succeeding his father Khufu, the man who built the Great Pyramid at Giza. His mother's identity remains uncertain. Where his father had raised stone to the sky, Djedefre reshaped the office itself: he introduced the royal title Sa-Rê — "Son of Ra" — binding the pharaoh's name directly to the sun god for the first time. Every king who followed would carry that claim. The Greeks later knew him as Rhatoisēs. He died around 2558 BC, leaving behind not a monument of limestone but a theological architecture that outlasted any pyramid.