# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-spicer-simson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:49.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-spicer-simson"
name: "Geoffrey Spicer-Simson"
slug: "geoffrey-spicer-simson"
description: "Commander Geoffrey Basil Spicer-Simson DSO was a Royal Navy officer. He served in the Mediterranean, Pacific and Home Fleets. He is most famous for his role as leader of a naval expedition to Lake Tanganyika in 1915, where he commanded a small flotilla which defeated a superior German force during the Battle for Lake Tanganyika."
tagline: "Royal Navy officer (1876-moi 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GeoffreySpicer-Simson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1876-01-15"
deathDate: "1947-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.34
  momentum:             10.68223387391782
  historical:           6.353313333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Spicer-Simson"
    title: "Geoffrey Spicer-Simson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Basil_Spicer_Simson"
    title: "Geoffrey Basil Spicer Simson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Spicer-Simson"
    title: "Geoffrey Spicer-Simson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Spicer-Simson"
    title: "Geoffrey Spicer-Simson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Spicer-Simson"
    title: "Geoffrey Spicer-Simson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Spicer-Simson"
    title: "Geoffrey Spicer-Simson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Spicer-Simson"
    title: "Geoffrey Spicer-Simson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q666861"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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