# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-serrao
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:19:21.147Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-serrao"
name: "Francisco Serrão"
slug: "francisco-serrao"
description: "Francisco Serrão was a Portuguese explorer and a possible cousin of Ferdinand Magellan. His 1512 voyage was the first known European sailing east past Malacca through modern Indonesia and the East Indies. He became a confidant of Sultan Bayan Sirrullah, the ruler of Ternate, becoming his personal advisor. He remained in Ternate where he died around the same time Magellan died."
tagline: "Portuguese explorer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francisco_Serr%C3%A3o.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
deathDate: "1521"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.48
  momentum:             5.647627495596952
  historical:           16.851552
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Франсішку Серран"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Francisco Serrão"
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    title: "Francisco Serrão"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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