# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-vancouver
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:21.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-vancouver"
name: "George Vancouver"
slug: "george-vancouver"
description: "Captain George Vancouver was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what became the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. The expedition also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia."
tagline: "English naval explorer (1757–1798)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Probably_George_Vancouver_from_NPG.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
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  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1757-06-22"
deathDate: "1798-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.740341408264509
  historical:           21.76660933333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump