# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-selous
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:22:46.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-selous"
name: "Frederick Selous"
slug: "frederick-selous"
description: "Frederick Courteney Selous, DSO was a British explorer, army officer, professional hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir Henry Rider Haggard to create the fictional character Allan Quatermain. Selous was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was pre-eminent within a group of big game hunters that included Abel Chapman and Arthur Henry Neumann. He was the older brother of the ornithologist and writer Edmund Selous."
tagline: "British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist (1851–1917)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frederick_Courteney_Selous_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1851-12-31"
deathDate: "1917-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.61
  momentum:             0.6531881804043547
  historical:           12.76530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Courtney_Selous"
    title: "Frederick Courtney Selous"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "فريدريك سيلوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريدريك سيلوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фредерик Селоус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Courteney_Selous"
    title: "Frederick Courteney Selous"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Selous"
    title: "Frederick Selous"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Selous"
    title: "Frederick Selous"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Courtney_Selous"
    title: "Frederick Courtney Selous"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Selous"
    title: "Frederick Selous"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "פרדריק סלוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Selous"
    title: "Frederick Selous"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%81%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Селус, Фредерик Кортни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Selous"
    title: "Frederick Selous"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Фредерік Кортні Селус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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