# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-samuel-drake
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:12:40.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-samuel-drake"
name: "Francis Samuel Drake"
slug: "francis-samuel-drake"
description: "Francis Samuel Drake was an American historian. His 1872 Dictionary of American Biography, containing 10,000 biographical sketches, was expanded after his death as Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography."
tagline: "United States historian and biographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Appletons'_Drake_Samuel_Gardner_-_Francis_Samuel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1828-02-22"
deathDate: "1885-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.85
  momentum:             15
  historical:           3.935277333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "فرنسيس صموئيل دريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "فرنسيس صموئيل دريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Samuel_Drake_(historian)"
    title: "Francis Samuel Drake (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Samuel_Drake_(historien)"
    title: "Francis Samuel Drake (historien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16062924"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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