# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elijah-craig
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:00:20.739Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elijah-craig"
name: "Elijah Craig"
slug: "elijah-craig"
description: "Elijah Craig was an American Baptist preacher, who became an educator and capitalist entrepreneur in the area of Virginia that later became the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He has sometimes, although rather dubiously, been credited with the invention of bourbon whiskey."
tagline: "American preacher 1738-1808"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elijah_Craig_woodcut.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1743"
deathDate: "1808-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.72
  momentum:             28.3482428115016
  historical:           5.075204
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%87_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%BA"
    title: "إليجاه كرايغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Craig"
    title: "Elijah Craig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Craig"
    title: "Elijah Craig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B0"
    title: "エライジャ・クレイグ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Craig"
    title: "Elijah Craig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5360904"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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