# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-bowie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:06:57.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-bowie"
name: "James Bowie"
slug: "james-bowie"
description: "James Bowie was an American military officer, landowner and slave trader who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He was among the Americans who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Stories of him as a fighter and frontiersman, both real and fictitious, have made him a legendary figure in Texas history and a folk hero of American culture. Bowie was born on April 10, 1796, in Logan County, Kentucky. He spent most of his life in Louisiana, where he was raised and where he later worked as a land speculator. His rise to fame began in 1827 on reports of the Sandbar Fight near present-day Vidalia, Louisiana. What began as a duel between two other men deteriorated into a mêlée in which Bowie, having been shot and stabbed, killed the sheriff of Rapides Parish with a large knife. This, and other stories of Bowie's prowess with a knife, led to the widespread popularity of the Bowie knife."
tagline: "Nineteenth-century American pioneer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimbowie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1796-04-10"
deathDate: "1836-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.549104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Боуи Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Bowie"
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    title: "James Bowie"
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    title: "James Bowie"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bowie"
    title: "James Bowie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Bowie"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "제임스 부이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Џим Боуви"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Bowie"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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