# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-francis-lyon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:18:08.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-francis-lyon"
name: "George Francis Lyon"
slug: "george-francis-lyon"
description: "George Francis Lyon was an English naval officer and explorer of Africa and the Arctic. While not having a particularly distinguished career, he is remembered for the entertaining journals he kept and for the pencil drawings he completed in the Arctic; this information was useful to later expeditions."
tagline: "English naval officer and explorer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Captain_Lyon%2C_RN_(1795-1832)_(by_John_Jackson).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1796-01-23"
deathDate: "1832-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.53
  momentum:             1.139846743295019
  historical:           6.545897333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Francis_Lyon"
    title: "George Francis Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Francis_Lyon"
    title: "George Francis Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Francis_Lyon"
    title: "George Francis Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Francis_Lyon"
    title: "George Francis Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Francis_Lyon"
    title: "George Francis Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Francis_Lyon"
    title: "George Francis Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Francis_Lyon"
    title: "George Francis Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101576"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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