# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elisha-kent-kane
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:30:53.247Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elisha-kent-kane"
name: "Elisha Kent Kane"
slug: "elisha-kent-kane"
description: "Elisha Kent Kane was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the Africa Squadron. He was assigned as a special envoy to the United States Army during the Mexican–American War and as a surveyor in the United States Coast Survey."
tagline: "American explorer and military medical officer (1820–1857)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elisha_Kane.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1820-02-28"
deathDate: "1857-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.42
  momentum:             9.23076923076923
  historical:           12.49892266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "إليشا كينت كان"
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    title: "اليشا كينت كان"
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    title: "Ілайша Кент Кейн"
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    title: "Elisha Kent Kane"
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    title: "Elisha Kane"
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    title: "Elisha Kent Kane"
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    title: "Кейн, Илайша Кент"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump