# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guillaume-le-gentil
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:22:18.141Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guillaume-le-gentil"
name: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
slug: "guillaume-le-gentil"
description: "Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière was a French astronomer who discovered several nebulae and was appointed to the Royal Academy of Sciences. He wrote on the estimation of the distance from the Earth to the Sun using solar transits, made unsuccessful attempts to observe the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus from India during an 11-year journey from France, and wrote a popular account of his adventures and misadventures during the journey."
tagline: "French astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1725-09-12"
deathDate: "1792-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.92
  momentum:             1.082474226804124
  historical:           20.85724
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "وليام الوثنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%96'%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9C"
    title: "גיום לה ז'נטיל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3"
    title: "ギヨーム・ル・ジャンティ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BC"
    title: "Лежантиль, Гийом"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume-Joseph-Hyacinthe-Jean-Baptiste_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume-Joseph-Hyacinthe-Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil"
    title: "Guillaume Le Gentil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%A1_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%AD_%E0%B8%8C%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B5"
    title: "กีโยม เลอ ฌ็องตี"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%9B%D0%B5_%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Гійом Ле Жантіль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%AA%E5%B0%A7%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E5%8B%92%E8%AE%A9%E8%92%82"
    title: "纪尧姆·勒让蒂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445076"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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