# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-varo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:54:56.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-varo"
name: "Francisco Varo"
slug: "francisco-varo"
description: "Francisco Varo was a Spanish Dominican friar, missionary in China, and author of the second grammar of Mandarin Chinese in a western language, \"Arte de la lengua mandarina\" (1703). His Chinese names were Wan Fangjige and Wan Jiguo."
tagline: "Spanish Dominican friar and linguist (1627-1687)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1627-10-04"
deathDate: "1687-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.3
  momentum:             7.941176470588236
  historical:           5.873650666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varo"
    title: "Francisco Varo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varo"
    title: "Francisco Varo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varo"
    title: "Francisco Varo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%87%E6%B5%8E%E5%9B%BD"
    title: "万济国"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varo"
    title: "Francisco Varo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varo"
    title: "Francisco Varo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5484029"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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