# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gregor-macgregor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:12:39.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gregor-macgregor"
name: "Gregor MacGregor"
slug: "gregor-macgregor"
description: "Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish soldier, adventurer and con man who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to \"Poyais\", a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule as \"Cazique\". Hundreds invested their savings in supposed Poyaisian government bonds and land certificates, while about 250 emigrated to MacGregor's invented country in 1822–23 to find only an untouched jungle in Honduras; more than half of them died. MacGregor's Poyais scheme has been called one of the most brazen confidence tricks in history."
tagline: "British soldier, adventurer and confidence trickster (1786-1845)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/General_Gregor_MacGregor_retouched.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1786-12-24"
deathDate: "1845-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.33
  momentum:             2.808898614150255
  historical:           13.49886266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump