# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-mercado
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:58:36.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-mercado"
name: "Francisco Mercado"
slug: "francisco-mercado"
description: "Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y Alejandro was the father of the Philippines' national hero Jose Rizal. He was born in Biñan, La Laguna. He had a wife named Teodora Realonda y Quintos and had 11 children altogether."
tagline: "Father of José Rizal"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francisco_r_mercado.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1818-05-11"
deathDate: "1898-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.01
  momentum:             14.58420475578558
  historical:           1.585929333333334
  currentAttention:     76.6773162939297
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Rizal_Mercado"
    title: "Francisco Rizal Mercado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36170137"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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