# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-marais
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:02.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugene-marais"
name: "Eugène Marais"
slug: "eugene-marais"
description: "Eugène Nielen Marais was a South African lawyer, naturalist, writer and poète maudit in the Second Language Movement of Afrikaans literature. Since his death by his own hand, Marais has been widely hailed as a literary and scientific genius and a cultural hero of the Afrikaner people."
tagline: "South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer (1871–1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eugenemarais.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1871-01-09"
deathDate: "1936-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.18
  momentum:             1.694915254237288
  historical:           12.96540933333333
  currentAttention:     9.416195856873824
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2553264"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "اوجين مارايس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "یوهان ماری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais"
    title: "Eugène Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Marais"
    title: "Eugene Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Юджін Марей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1373534"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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