# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-bertin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:43:56.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-bertin"
name: "Jacques Bertin"
slug: "jacques-bertin"
description: "Jacques Bertin was a French cartographer and theorist, known from his book Sémiologie Graphique, published in 1967. This monumental work, based on his experience as a cartographer and geographer, represents the first and widest intent to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization, with his most lasting contribution being his set of visual variables that can be used to construct map symbols and other graphical techniques one of then being the Bertin Projection, an innovative map projection type, or to seriate them."
tagline: "French geographer and cartographer (1918–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacques_Bertin_71.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-07-27"
deathDate: "2010-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump