# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/home-riggs-popham
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:12:20.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/home-riggs-popham"
name: "Home Riggs Popham"
slug: "home-riggs-popham"
description: "Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH, was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is known for his scientific accomplishments, particularly the development of a signal code that was adopted by the Royal Navy in 1803."
tagline: "Royal Navy admiral (1762-1820)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Home_Riggs_Popham_from_NPG.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1762-10-12"
deathDate: "1820-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.833804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
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    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
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    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Riggs_Popham"
    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Riggs_Popham"
    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Riggs_Popham"
    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Riggs_Popham"
    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Riggs_Popham"
    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Riggs_Popham"
    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Riggs_Popham"
    title: "Home Riggs Popham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BC%2C_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BC"
    title: "Пофам, Хоум"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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