# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-bruce
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:08:16.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-bruce"
name: "James Bruce"
slug: "james-bruce"
description: "James Bruce of Kinnaird was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the first European to trace and document the course of the Nile by following it upstream from Egypt through Sudan to its origins in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia."
tagline: "Scottish explorer and botanist (1730–1794)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Bruce.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: "1730-12-14"
deathDate: "1794-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.7
  momentum:             15
  historical:           21.03618533333334
  currentAttention:     16.68
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ջեյմս Բրյուս"
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    title: "James Bruce (ontdekkingsreiziger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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