# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-marquette
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:06.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-marquette"
name: "Jacques Marquette"
slug: "jacques-marquette"
description: "Jacques Marquette, sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. In 1673, Marquette, along with Louis Jolliet, an explorer born near Quebec City, explored and mapped the northern portion of the Mississippi River Valley."
tagline: "French Jesuit and explorer (1637–1675)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pere_Marquette_close-up.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1637-06-01"
deathDate: "1675-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump