# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-russell-burnham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:43:31.872Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-russell-burnham"
name: "Frederick Russell Burnham"
slug: "frederick-russell-burnham"
description: "Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. Burnham helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement."
tagline: "Father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil man; writer; rancher (1861–1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Major_Frederick_Russell_Burnham_DSO_1901.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1861-05-11"
deathDate: "1947-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump