# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gaspar-da-cruz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:40:49.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gaspar-da-cruz"
name: "Gaspar da Cruz"
slug: "gaspar-da-cruz"
description: "Gaspar da Cruz was a Portuguese Dominican friar born in Évora, who traveled to Asia and wrote one of the first detailed European accounts about China."
tagline: "Portuguese Dominican friar and travel writer (c.1520–1570)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1520"
deathDate: "1570-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.49
  momentum:             8.333333333333334
  historical:           8.744097333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_da_Cruz"
    title: "Gaspar da Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_da_Cruz"
    title: "Gaspar da Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_da_Cruz"
    title: "Gaspar da Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_da_Cruz"
    title: "Gaspar da Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_da_Cruz"
    title: "Gaspar da Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard_de_Santa-Cruz"
    title: "Gaspard de Santa-Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%96"
    title: "גספר דה קרוז"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_da_Cruz"
    title: "Gaspar da Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%A0%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%82%E1%9E%9F%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%94%E1%9F%89%E1%9E%8A%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%82%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%9A%E1%9E%BB%E1%9E%9F"
    title: "ហ្គស្ប៉ដាគ្រុស"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_da_Cruz"
    title: "Gaspar da Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3098834"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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