# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-wheeler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:25.219Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-wheeler"
name: "George Wheeler"
slug: "george-wheeler"
description: "George Montague Wheeler was an American pioneering explorer and cartographer and the leader of the Wheeler Survey, one of the major geographical surveys of the western United States in the late 19th century."
tagline: "American cartographer (1842-1905)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Captain-wheeler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1842-10-09"
deathDate: "1905-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.76
  momentum:             1.607476635514019
  historical:           4.822356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BB%D1%8A%D1%80"
    title: "Джордж Уийлър"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Montague_Wheeler"
    title: "George Montague Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wheeler_(explorer)"
    title: "George Wheeler (explorer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wheeler_(explorateur)"
    title: "George Wheeler (explorateur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wheeler"
    title: "George Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507930"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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