# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-perigal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:20:46.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-perigal"
name: "Henry Perigal"
slug: "henry-perigal"
description: "Henry Perigal, Jr. FRAS MRI was a British stockbroker and amateur mathematician, known for his dissection-based proof of the Pythagorean theorem and for his unorthodox belief that the moon does not rotate."
tagline: "British mathematician (1801–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Perigal.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1801-04-01"
deathDate: "1898-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.605292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Perigal"
    title: "Henry Perigal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Perigal"
    title: "Henry Perigal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Perigal"
    title: "Henry Perigal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Perigal"
    title: "Henry Perigal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Perigal"
    title: "Henry Perigal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5726895"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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