# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-wayland
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:20:38.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-wayland"
name: "Francis Wayland"
slug: "francis-wayland"
description: "Francis Wayland was an American Baptist minister, educator and economist. He was president of Brown University and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America in Providence, Rhode Island. In Washington, D.C., Wayland Seminary was established in 1867, primarily to educate former slaves, and was named in his honor."
tagline: "American educator (1796–1865); President of Brown University 1827–1855"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Wayland_daguerreotype.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1796-03-07"
deathDate: "1865-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.743953333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "فرانسيس وايلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wayland_senior"
    title: "Francis Wayland senior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wayland"
    title: "Francis Wayland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francis_Wayland"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5482708"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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